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Contents:

• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• 25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet. We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive).

SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB

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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Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that 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 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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

(AP) — The alleged shooter facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub was orred held whout bail an ial urt appearance Wednday as the spect sat slumped over a chair. He said his first reactn was to qutn why Aldrich was at a gay bar. Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened Brk’s name that clud an animatn tled “Asian homosexual gets molted.

In a vio statement, Ed Sanrs said he thought about what he would do a mass shootg after the 2016 massacre of 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. 27, 1978, Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and a proment gay figure at the time, was assassated by polil opponent Dan Whe.

Whe also shot and killed San Francis Mayor Gee was one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat and beme an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ liberatn. Cmpley, a former trans police officer, began an armed rampage the New York Cy neighborhood, gunng down two outsi a li before openg fire on a crowd gathered ont of Sneakers, a gay bar. The attack, which Cmpley admted was a targeted asslt on the gay muny, ultimately left two ad and jured six more.

25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

Mathew Shepard murrIn early October 1998, Mathew Shepard, a gay teen Laramie, Wyomg, was btally attacked and tied to a fence. He met attackers Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney at a gay bar. ”Backstreet Cafe shootgIn September 2000, a man opened fire at the Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar  Roanoke, Virgia.

Assailant Ronald Gay had gone to another bar and asked where the neart gay bar was, police later said. Anti-Gay Attacks Take Toll on Rsia's Largt Gay NightclubPart 2: Facg nstant danger, some of Central Statn's performers are fleeg the untry.

Two men fired shots a Mosw gay nightclub Saturday, an attack nsired part of the pattern of recent antigay vlence men threatened patrons at the Central Statn club, and when an employee tried to keep them out, began shootg, reports webse Queer Rsia.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

The men ped, but the club has surveillance vio that s management hop will lead to have been several other attacks on the club, and managers have appealed to police for addnal protectn, the se has been much antigay vlence Rsia sce the passage last summer of a natnal law banng "propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns" to mors, sentially a ban on any posive discsn of LGBT rights or inti. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.