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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Janelle Griffh</a></span> and <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Parker Grey stopped gog to <a href=" target="_blank">Club Q</a> about a year and half ago “bee of the growg hatred for our muny that started ” Colorado Sprgs, Colorado.</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">A gunman opened fire wh an AR-15-style rifle at the</a> LGBTQ club <a href=" target="_blank">late Saturday night</a>, killg five people and jurg at least 25 others. The spected shooter, who was hurt the attack, was apprehend by police and is the hospal. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">While no motive the shootg has been disclosed by thori, the vlence amid heightened tensns for the LGBTQ muny. Several drag events around the untry have <a href=" target="_blank">drawn protts</a> and <a href=" target="_blank">threats</a>, wh some <a href=" target="_blank">protters rryg firearms</a>, and more than <a href=" target="_blank">240 anti-LGBTQ bills were filed</a> the first three months of this year, most of them targetg trans people</p><p class="">Grey, 25, noted the rise  <a href=" target="_blank">vlence agast transgenr people</a>, particularly trans women of lor, <a href=" target="_blank">over the last few years</a>. “You n jt feel . As a muny, beg through so much grief and so much loss after so many years, ’s almost like you n feel tragedy g.”</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank"><strong><em>Follow along for live verage of the shootg.</em></strong></a></p><p class="">He said that sense was prent at Club Q even before the shootg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“The numbers thned out at the club naturally wh Covid, but I thk people began to fear for their safety aga like they did back 2016 when Pulse happened,” he said, referrg to the <a href=" target="_blank">2016 massacre at Pulse,</a> a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, where a gunman killed 49 people and wound 53. </p><p class="">While thori say they have not termed a motive or whether the shootg will be prosecuted as a hate crime, the founr of Club Q said Sunday that " very much feels targeted."</p><p class="">"He went there wh a fe missn," Matthew Hay said of the gunman. "So, of urse, we want that hate addrsed."</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="154771013516"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Colorado Sprgs mayor speaks out on adly nightclub shootg</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Nov. 21, 2022</span><span>03:20</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Colorado Sprgs mayor speaks out on adly nightclub shootg& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Grey said the cy's most recent Pri celebratn drew a smaller crowd than s first Pri event a few years ago. There have always been protters, he add. Recently, he and his iends have traveled to Denver, more than an hour’s drive north, for most LGBTQ events.</p><p class="">Garrett Royer, puty director of One Colorado, a statewi LGBTQ advocy anizatn, scribed Colorado as “a mixed bag” when to LGBTQ polici. </p><p class="">He said that the state has some of the bt legal accs for transgenr and nonbary people to update their genr markers on inty documents, but that there is an overwhelmg phback of negative rhetoric — pecially at the lol level, and particularly on school boards — that are tryg to flame or policize trans or LGBTQ youth. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“You see a number of attacks g om state school board of tn members who believe that teachers, tors, admistrators, who are supportive of LGBTQ stunts are some way groomers,” he said. “Obvly, there are nsequenc to that kd of rhetoric.”</p><p class="">He poted out, however, that jt this month, the state Board of Edutn <a href=" target="_blank">falized and approved more clive K-3 social studi standards</a> that will allow the mentn of the LGBTQ muny. </p><p class="">Liss Smh, the munitns manager for Insi Out Youth Servic, an anizatn that provis support for LGBTQ people ag 13 to 24, said Colorado has a long history of stutnalized discrimatn agast the muny.</p><p class="">"We were the nex of Amendment 2 1992, which basilly dified discrimatn agast the LGBTQ folks Colorado state law," said Smh, who they/them pronouns. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Amendment 2 was a ballot iative passed by Colorado voters that prohibed the state om enactg anti-discrimatn protectns for gay, lbian and bisexual people until was stck down by the Supreme Court 1996. The movement that advoted for that amendment started Colorado Sprgs, they said. </p><p class="">"I don’t know that we ever believe that we’ve fully grown out of that," said Smh, 32, a longtime Colorado Sprgs rint. "But I thk there’s been so much enuragement recent years of how much growth there has been, and how acceptg and warm the muny has the potential to be that we’ve seen."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">"And not to say that hate don't happen here. It do," they add. "Last night was jt kd of an example of what happens when ’s taken to vlence. And all om the same place of hatred. And we see that our school boards, we see that teractns that our young people have wh their peers."</p><p class="">There have been stanc this year of school board members, such as Jason Jenson, vice print of the Colorado Sprgs District 11 Board of Edutn, postg transphobic mem on social media. He shared a meme Febary that showed a trans person hooked up to an ultrasound mache, which projected an image of fel matter, <a href=" target="_blank">KOAA News5 reported</a>. The text read, “When you transgenr and you thk you pregnant…," acrdg to the statn. He later apologized, <a href=" target="_blank">the outlet reported</a>. </p><p class="">"There's still so much hatred for our muny and we're all jt people tryg to live our liv," Smh said. </p><p class="">They relled multiple cints of hate or ignorance directed at LGBTQ youth at area high schools the last two years. Most recently, Colorado Sprgs, a transgenr girl was <a href=" target="_blank">kicked out</a> of the homeg dance bee she wore a drs, Smh add. </p><p class="">“We know as LGBTQ people that even our safe spac rry some element of danger, bee they’re our spac,” Smh said. “And I thk that’s jt somethg that you have to grow to accept as a queer person livg today.”</p><p class="">Colorado Rep. Lren Boebert, a Republin, who lled the shootg Saturday “<a href=" target="_blank">absolutely awful</a>,” has ma anti-LGBTQ polici a part of her platform. She oppos marriage equaly and troduced legislatn that would <a href=" target="_blank">ban genr-affirmg treatments for transgenr youth</a>. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">A report earlier this year</a> ced Boebert along wh ne other policians as drivg rhetoric implyg that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer <a href=">people are “groomg” children</a>.</p><p class="">Boebert and Jenson did not immediately reply to requts for ment.</p><p class="">"Obvly that rhetoric the media and natnally and this effort to monize LGBTQ folks for simply existg and beg who they are, do fluence the way that people thk about an already vulnerable muny," Royer said. </p><p class="">Grey, who liv close proximy to Club Q, plans to host a “<a href=" target="_blank">Remembrance and Radilizatn</a>“ event Monday eveng Acia Park. 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traductn gay as sprgtime dans le dictnnaire Anglais - Français Reverso, voir ssi 'sprg ti, sprg, sprt, sprter', njugaison, exprsns idmatiqu

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(AS) GAY AS SPRGTIME

Defn of (as) gay as sprgtime the Idms Dictnary. (as) gay as sprgtime phrase. What do (as) gay as sprgtime exprsn mean? Defns by the largt Idm Dictnary. * gay as springtime *

▲(as) f as a butcher's dog(as) f as a fiddle(as) f as a flea(as) f as a Mallee bull(as) flat as a board(as) flat as a panke(as) flat as a strap(as) flat as a tack(as) fouled up as Hogan's goat(as) ee as (the) air(as) ee as a bird(as) h as a daisy(as) h as a rose(as) full as a boiled owl(as) full as a goog(as) full as a tick(as) funny as a barrel of monkeys(as) funny as a ctch(as) funny as a fart a spacu(as) game as Ned Kelly(as) gdy as a butterfly(as) gay as a lark(as) gay as a piic basket(as) gay as a three-dollar bill(as) gay as pk k(as) gay as sprgtime(as) gentle as a lamb(as) good as ad(as) good as fished(as) good as gold(as) good as new(as) graceful as a swan(as) green as grass(as) gff as a bear(as) guilty as hell(as) guilty as s(as) happy as a clam(as) happy as a clam at high ti(as) happy as a clam butter sce(as) happy as a duck Arizona(as) happy as a flea a doghoe(as) happy as a lark(as) happy as a pig clover(as) happy as a pig muck(as) happy as a pig mud(as) happy as a pig sh(as) happy as a pig slop(as) happy as a prce(as) happy as a sandboy(as) happy as n be(as) happy as Larry▼.

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GAY AS SPRGTIME

Defn of gay as sprgtime, as the Idms Dictnary. gay as sprgtime, as phrase. What do gay as sprgtime, as exprsn mean? Defns by the largt Idm Dictnary. * gay as springtime *

Gay and Lbian Youth Servic of Wtern New York. Gay Asian Pacific Islanr Men of New York. (as) gay as sprgtime (redirected om as gay as sprg time).

▲as far as I (n) rell/rememberas far as I n seeas far as I n tellas far as I unrstand ()as far as I'm ncernedas far as me lias far as is ncernedas far as goas far as possibleas far as that goas far as the eye n seeas far as the eye n/uld seeas fast as (one's) legs n rry (one)as fast as the speed of lightas fast as your legs n rry youas fat as a beached whaleas followsas foras for somebody/somethgas h as a daisyas omas om (somethg)as fuckas game as Ned Kellyas gay as pk kas gay as sprg timeas good asas good as (one's) wordas good as (somethg)as good as doneas good as goldas good as getsas good as newas good as wordas good good, well, etc.

BE (AS) GAY AS SPRGTIME

Defn of as gay as sprg time the Idms Dictnary. as gay as sprg time phrase. What do as gay as sprg time exprsn mean? Defns by the largt Idm Dictnary. * gay as springtime *

(rare, sie, rogatory) Overtly or flamboyantly homosexual. I a't mad at I am (someone), hear me (do somethg)I am gay as sprgtimeI am not my brother's keeperI am so sure!

I am gay as sprgtimeI am gazg to a crystal ball. as gay as sprgtime → αδελφάρα, αδερφάρα, αρχιπούστρα, έκδηλα ομοφυλόφιλος, εμφανώς γκέι, καραδελφή, καραδερφή, καρακραγμένη, καραπουστάρα, καραπουστάρας, καραπούστρα, κραγμένος, ξεφωνημένος, πουστάρα, πουσταράς, πούσταρος, πούστρα του κερατάgay as a three-dollar billgay as a lark gay as a wdowas gay as a piic basketgay as a piic basketas gay as sprgtimegay as sprgtimeas gay as pk kgay as pk k. Maybe you’re a gay uple planng your first date or an tablished uple who has been together for years.

10 FRH SPRG DATE IAS FOR GAY COUPL

Defn of I am gay as sprgtime the Idms Dictnary. I am gay as sprgtime phrase. What do I am gay as sprgtime exprsn mean? Defns by the largt Idm Dictnary. * gay as springtime *

Whether you’re lookg for a first-time date ia or somethg a ltle more adventuro, we’ve got you vered wh a few h sprg date ias for gay upl.

(AS) GAY AS SPRGTIME THàNH NGữ, TụC NGữ

gay as sprgtime → αδελφάρα, αδερφάρα, αρχιπούστρα, έκδηλα ομοφυλόφιλος, εμφανώς γκέι, καραδελφή, καραδερφή, καρακραγμένη, καραπουστάρα, καραπουστάρας, καραπούστρα, κραγμένος, ξεφωνημένος, πουστάρα, πουσταράς, πούσταρος, πούστρα του κερατά * gay as springtime *

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TRANSLATN OF "GAY AS SPRGTIME" FRENCH

Sprg is here and 's time to plan for warmer weather. HomoCulture has you vered wh h sprg date ias for gay upl. * gay as springtime *

This is the largt annual day of direct LGBTQ actn the world wh thoands of Gay-Straight Allianc (GSA) participatg on their mp!

GAY AS SPRGTIME FN, GAY AS SPRGTIME MEANG | ENGLISH DICTNARY

Cùng học tiếng anh với từ điển Từ đồng nghĩa, cách dùng từ tương tự, Thành ngữ, tục ngữ (as) gay as sprgtime * gay as springtime *

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TRADUCTN GAY AS SPRGTIME | DICTNNAIRE ANGLAIS-FRANçAIS

Translatns ntext of "gay as sprgtime" English-French om Reverso Context: I'm as gay as sprgtime. * gay as springtime *

That boy gay as them boys down Atlanta. Ce garçon éta gay me cx morts à Atlanta. Matthi Tugny succeeds Philippe Donche-Gay as the head of Mare & Offshore.

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gay as sprgtime translatn English - English Reverso dictnary, see also 'sprgti, sprg ti, sprge, sprg', exampl, fn, njugatn * gay as springtime *

Matthi Tugny succè à Philippe Donche-Gay à la tête la divisn Mare & Offshore. This imperialism nstut lbians and gays as 'other'.

* gay as springtime *

Ce garçon éta gay me une robe prtemps. But gay as the day is long, and everybody knew .

Mais gay puis toujours, et tout le mon la sava. Sounds about as gay as Tom Hanks a whe sailor's outf. Asi gay que Tom Hanks dans un stume blanc mar.

That mak you jt as gay as everyone else here. Ça te rend ssi gay que tout le mon ici. And, um, gay as a, um- a tangere at Christmas.

WordSense Dictnary: gay as sprgtime - ✔ meang, ✔ fn. * gay as springtime *

"gay as sprgtime": exempl et traductns en ntexte. No te laisserons rendre Un prtemps pour Hler ssi gay qu'humaement souhaable.

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Exotic and flamboyant, he lived surround by his Far East Rhyme Killers - Page 49 (Judy Goon)Exampl: ey like stars, gay as sprgtime. A World to Disver - Page 438 (Matilda Bailey)They are pretty and gay as sprgtime, right for the fabrics you will fd your Country Gentleman - Volume 121, Issu 1-6 - Page 171 (1951)Try one pair.

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Pronunciatn exampleEn--gay as sprgtime. WordSense is a ee dictnary ntag rmatn about the meang, the spellg and answer the qutn: How do you spell gay as sprgtime‎? This analysis foc on whether people around the world thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society or not.

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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Janelle Griffh</a></span> and <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Parker Grey stopped gog to <a href=" target="_blank">Club Q</a> about a year and half ago “bee of the growg hatred for our muny that started ” Colorado Sprgs, Colorado.</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">A gunman opened fire wh an AR-15-style rifle at the</a> LGBTQ club <a href=" target="_blank">late Saturday night</a>, killg five people and jurg at least 25 others. The spected shooter, who was hurt the attack, was apprehend by police and is the hospal. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">While no motive the shootg has been disclosed by thori, the vlence amid heightened tensns for the LGBTQ muny. Several drag events around the untry have <a href=" target="_blank">drawn protts</a> and <a href=" target="_blank">threats</a>, wh some <a href=" target="_blank">protters rryg firearms</a>, and more than <a href=" target="_blank">240 anti-LGBTQ bills were filed</a> the first three months of this year, most of them targetg trans people</p><p class="">Grey, 25, noted the rise  <a href=" target="_blank">vlence agast transgenr people</a>, particularly trans women of lor, <a href=" target="_blank">over the last few years</a>. “You n jt feel . As a muny, beg through so much grief and so much loss after so many years, ’s almost like you n feel tragedy g.”</p><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank"><strong><em>Follow along for live verage of the shootg.</em></strong></a></p><p class="">He said that sense was prent at Club Q even before the shootg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“The numbers thned out at the club naturally wh Covid, but I thk people began to fear for their safety aga like they did back 2016 when Pulse happened,” he said, referrg to the <a href=" target="_blank">2016 massacre at Pulse,</a> a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, where a gunman killed 49 people and wound 53. </p><p class="">While thori say they have not termed a motive or whether the shootg will be prosecuted as a hate crime, the founr of Club Q said Sunday that " very much feels targeted."</p><p class="">"He went there wh a fe missn," Matthew Hay said of the gunman. "So, of urse, we want that hate addrsed."</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="154771013516"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Colorado Sprgs mayor speaks out on adly nightclub shootg</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Nov. 21, 2022</span><span>03:20</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Colorado Sprgs mayor speaks out on adly nightclub shootg& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Grey said the cy's most recent Pri celebratn drew a smaller crowd than s first Pri event a few years ago. There have always been protters, he add. Recently, he and his iends have traveled to Denver, more than an hour’s drive north, for most LGBTQ events.</p><p class="">Garrett Royer, puty director of One Colorado, a statewi LGBTQ advocy anizatn, scribed Colorado as “a mixed bag” when to LGBTQ polici. </p><p class="">He said that the state has some of the bt legal accs for transgenr and nonbary people to update their genr markers on inty documents, but that there is an overwhelmg phback of negative rhetoric — pecially at the lol level, and particularly on school boards — that are tryg to flame or policize trans or LGBTQ youth. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“You see a number of attacks g om state school board of tn members who believe that teachers, tors, admistrators, who are supportive of LGBTQ stunts are some way groomers,” he said. “Obvly, there are nsequenc to that kd of rhetoric.”</p><p class="">He poted out, however, that jt this month, the state Board of Edutn <a href=" target="_blank">falized and approved more clive K-3 social studi standards</a> that will allow the mentn of the LGBTQ muny. </p><p class="">Liss Smh, the munitns manager for Insi Out Youth Servic, an anizatn that provis support for LGBTQ people ag 13 to 24, said Colorado has a long history of stutnalized discrimatn agast the muny.</p><p class="">"We were the nex of Amendment 2 1992, which basilly dified discrimatn agast the LGBTQ folks Colorado state law," said Smh, who they/them pronouns. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Amendment 2 was a ballot iative passed by Colorado voters that prohibed the state om enactg anti-discrimatn protectns for gay, lbian and bisexual people until was stck down by the Supreme Court 1996. The movement that advoted for that amendment started Colorado Sprgs, they said. </p><p class="">"I don’t know that we ever believe that we’ve fully grown out of that," said Smh, 32, a longtime Colorado Sprgs rint. "But I thk there’s been so much enuragement recent years of how much growth there has been, and how acceptg and warm the muny has the potential to be that we’ve seen."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">"And not to say that hate don't happen here. It do," they add. "Last night was jt kd of an example of what happens when ’s taken to vlence. And all om the same place of hatred. And we see that our school boards, we see that teractns that our young people have wh their peers."</p><p class="">There have been stanc this year of school board members, such as Jason Jenson, vice print of the Colorado Sprgs District 11 Board of Edutn, postg transphobic mem on social media. He shared a meme Febary that showed a trans person hooked up to an ultrasound mache, which projected an image of fel matter, <a href=" target="_blank">KOAA News5 reported</a>. The text read, “When you transgenr and you thk you pregnant…," acrdg to the statn. He later apologized, <a href=" target="_blank">the outlet reported</a>. </p><p class="">"There's still so much hatred for our muny and we're all jt people tryg to live our liv," Smh said. </p><p class="">They relled multiple cints of hate or ignorance directed at LGBTQ youth at area high schools the last two years. Most recently, Colorado Sprgs, a transgenr girl was <a href=" target="_blank">kicked out</a> of the homeg dance bee she wore a drs, Smh add. </p><p class="">“We know as LGBTQ people that even our safe spac rry some element of danger, bee they’re our spac,” Smh said. “And I thk that’s jt somethg that you have to grow to accept as a queer person livg today.”</p><p class="">Colorado Rep. Lren Boebert, a Republin, who lled the shootg Saturday “<a href=" target="_blank">absolutely awful</a>,” has ma anti-LGBTQ polici a part of her platform. She oppos marriage equaly and troduced legislatn that would <a href=" target="_blank">ban genr-affirmg treatments for transgenr youth</a>. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class=""><a href=" target="_blank">A report earlier this year</a> ced Boebert along wh ne other policians as drivg rhetoric implyg that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer <a href=">people are “groomg” children</a>.</p><p class="">Boebert and Jenson did not immediately reply to requts for ment.</p><p class="">"Obvly that rhetoric the media and natnally and this effort to monize LGBTQ folks for simply existg and beg who they are, do fluence the way that people thk about an already vulnerable muny," Royer said. </p><p class="">Grey, who liv close proximy to Club Q, plans to host a “<a href=" target="_blank">Remembrance and Radilizatn</a>“ event Monday eveng Acia Park. 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