The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to cement. Nic Grzecka’s voice was tged wh exhstn as he spoke wh The Associated Prs on Wednday night some of his first ments sce Saturday night's attack at Club Q, a venue Grzecka helped build to an enclave that staed the LGBTQ muny nservative-leang Colorado Sprgs. The spect, Anrson Lee Aldrich, 22, has not entered a plea or spoken about the cint.
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- AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
- MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
- SHOOTG AT GAY CLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED
- WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
- GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'
AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
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— A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said firearms, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene at Club Q, said Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was “sickeng.
MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
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SHOOTG AT GAY CLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED
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WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
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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 have been 523 mass killgs sce 2006 rultg 2, 727 aths as of Nov. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.
GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet.
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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
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. Aldrich was then moved to El Paso County Jail on spect ma their first urt appearance via vio lk om the jail on Wednday, where they uld be seen slumped a chair wh visible bisg on their fence lawyers appeared to need to prompt Aldrich durg the brief vio spect spoke twice, wh a slurred rponse, nfirmg their name and to say "no" when the judge asked whether they had any on Tuday, fence lawyers said the acced is nonbary and a footnote to their filg asserted that Aldrich prefers g the pronouns "they" and "them" more: Colorado gay club shootg spect intifi as non-bary, lawyers say.
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Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to ary bas and the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.
OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW 'TYPE OF HATE'
The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.
”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. Club Q was long nsired a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny a cy wh a history of beg anti-gay.
For the first time s four- history, Ameri’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn recently clared a natnal state of emergency, cg “creased homophobia and transphobia. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.