The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
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- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
- GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
- A BLACK, GAY MAN IS CRIL CONDN AFTER BEG SHOT BY POLICE
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.
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TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
Graphic footage, which Insir viewed, appears to show Hamed Sabouri, a 22-year-old gay Afghan, beg shot the head and neck several tim. * gay man shot *
He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg 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 the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. A gay 22-year-old Afghan man was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, Pk News reported.
A gay Afghan man was kidnapped and shot to ath by the Taliban, acrdg to activists who knew him, Pk News was the first to Sabouri of Kabul, Afghanistan, died on Augt 5, activists said. Graphic vio footage of a murr, which Insir has viewed, appears to show a man remblg Sabouri beg shot the neck and head at least 12 later, the Taliban sent the disturbg executn vio to Sabouri's relativ and iends, who, turn, forward to the Afghan LGBTQ+ group a statement to Insir, Nemat Sadat, Roshaniya's executive director, said: "Hamed Sabouri was a gay man wh big dreams that have now been shattered.
GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
"Sadat said Sabouri, who had wanted to be a doctor, had "endured discrimatn his whole life for beg gay and his life me to an abpt end wh no one there to help him. "Bahar (his nickname, ed to protect his inty), a gay Afghan man a relatnship wh Sabouri, was one of the recipients of the vio. "I thk the Taliban wanted to send a dangero msage to his fay, " he told scribed his former boyiend as a "very kd boy" who was "btally killed" bee of his said he thought Sabouri was jokg when he told him July that the Taliban was targetg him and was " danger" for beg gay.
"When the Taliban took over, Insir spoke to several gay men Afghanistan who scribed how they were livg fear. One Afghan activist predicted gay people Afghanistan would be "weed out and extermated. A Detro man has been charged an attempted robbery and shootg that left one gay man ad and another crilly jured.
The cint is the latt a strg of attacks agast gay men targeted through a popular LGBTQ datg app.
A BLACK, GAY MAN IS CRIL CONDN AFTER BEG SHOT BY POLICE
"The allegatns are that social media ntacts were ed to target, ntact, rob, fatally shoot one gay man and serly wound another gay man, " Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said a statement. ”Gay men are routely targeted on datg apps like Grdr, where privacy and safety ncerns abound. In May of this year, two Dallas men were charged by a feral grand jury wh "nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg" after lurg ne gay men through the popular app to an apartment plex and subsequently kidnappg, sexually assltg and robbg them.
"The dictment further alleg that Jenks and Henry ed bodily jury to four victims bee of their actual and perceived sexual orientatn, " a Jtice Department statement year, followg a siar cint, thori charged four men wh feral hate crim for a seri of North Texas asslts and robberi after they posed as gay and manipulated victims to divulgg their home addrs via the app 2017. The men, whose ag ranged om 19 to 21, were sentenced to between 10 and 20 years prison for breakg to victims' hom, tyg them up wh tape, physilly assltg them and yellg gay slurs at them.
Perhaps one of the most well-known gay datg-app predators is Stephen Port — a man dubbed "The Grdr Killer" — who was sentenced to life prison 2016 for dggg, rapg and killg four men he met through the app.