Colorado shooter Anrson Lee Aldrich's father exprs anti-gay rhetoric terview

Contents:

• PATRONS GAY CLUB SHOOTG H GUNMAN WH HIS OWN WEAPON
• "I'M JT GLAD HE'S NOT GAY," SAYS FATHER OF ALLEGED CLUB Q SHOOTER
• ANRSON LEE ALDRICH'S DAD WAS 'SRED' SON WAS GAY AFTER CLUB Q SHOOTG
• ‘IS HE GAY?’ PORN ACTOR FATHER OF COLORADO SPRGS LGBTQ CLUB SHOOTER REVEALS FIRST THOUGHTS
• FATHER OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTER SPEAKS OUT AFTER FIVE KILLED, MULTIPLE JURED
• ‘PHEW, HE’S NOT GAY’: COLORADO SHOOTER’S FATHER REACTS AS HE LEARNS SON KILLED FIVE A QUEER CLUB
• ‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW
• 'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG

PATRONS GAY CLUB SHOOTG H GUNMAN WH HIS OWN WEAPON

As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who had been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut ctomer was one of at least two whom police and cy officials cred wh stoppg the gunman and limg the bloodshed Saturday night's shootg at Club Q. Suthers told the AP there was "reason to hope" all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and prevented more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man to be elected a U. On a discsn about the father of the shooter at the gay club. The tranged father of alleged Club Q shooter Anrson Aldrich ially exprsed relief that his child is not gay.

"I'M JT GLAD HE'S NOT GAY," SAYS FATHER OF ALLEGED CLUB Q SHOOTER

“And then I go on to fd out ’s a gay bar. I got sred, ‘Sh, is he gay?

ANRSON LEE ALDRICH'S DAD WAS 'SRED' SON WAS GAY AFTER CLUB Q SHOOTG

’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew. “We don’t do gay, ” Brk said.

When asked about what he tght Aldrich about the LGBTQ muny, Brk claimed that “gays have been very mean to me. “My opn about gays is ’s not ok, ” Brk ntued. “I thk we should stand up agast homosexualy.

‘IS HE GAY?’ PORN ACTOR FATHER OF COLORADO SPRGS LGBTQ CLUB SHOOTER REVEALS FIRST THOUGHTS

"We don't do gay, " Aaron Brk, father of Colorado shootg spect Anrson Lee Aldrich said wh relief. When Aaron Brk learned that his 22-year-old offsprg, Anrson Lee Aldrich, was the ma spect a shootg that claimed the liv of five people and wound at least 18 others at a gay bar lled Club Q Colorado Sprgs, his ma ncern was whether or not his child was gay. In an terview wh CBS, Brk scribed the moment he learned of the shootg sayg "There was a shootg volvg multiple people, and then I fd was a gay bar and I was like oh my god, is he gay?

And he's not gay so... When asked by the CBS reporter to ment on whether or not he and his offsprg had nversatns about homosexualy the past, Brk said "Oh yeah, I was adamant about . I'm a Mormon, I'm a nservative Republin and we don't do gay.

FATHER OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTER SPEAKS OUT AFTER FIVE KILLED, MULTIPLE JURED

Brk, who liv Southern California, has a background the porn dtry, acrdg to Daily Beast, and has appeared such films as "My MILF Boss 8, " "I Wanna Get Tty F***ed, " and "Lata Slut Amy, " which seemgly aligns wh his relig and polil valu whereas beg gay do not. The father of the acced Club Q shooter has exprsed relief that his child isn't Brk, the father of Anrson Lee Aldrich, gave a homophobia-filled terview to San Diego TV statn KFMB.

Brk, 48, who has worked as a porn star and mixed martial arts fighter and ach, said he wonred what his offsprg was dog a gay bar. "And then I go on to fd out 's a gay bar. I said, 'God, is he gay?

' I got sred, 'Sh, is he gay? ' And he's not gay, so I said, 'Phew...

‘PHEW, HE’S NOT GAY’: COLORADO SHOOTER’S FATHER REACTS AS HE LEARNS SON KILLED FIVE A QUEER CLUB

'"Brk said he and his fay are Mormons, and "you know, Mormons don't do gay. We don't do gay. There's no gays the Mormon Church.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.