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• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT INTIFI AS ‘NONBARY,’ LAWYERS SAY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• 'RADILISED TEENAGER' KILLED TWO OUTSI SLOVAKIA GAY BAR - PM
• OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
• 25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

— 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. ”Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

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AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive). 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. 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.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT INTIFI AS ‘NONBARY,’ LAWYERS SAY

”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.

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

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.

The spect acced of shootg five people and jurg more than a dozen others at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs intifi as nonbary and they/them pronouns, the alleged shooter’s public fenrs said a urt filg on Tuday. — Alexandria Os-Cortez (@AOC) November 20, 2022“The attack on a gay-oriented nightspot immediately raised worri about any nnectn to the untry’s rrosive cultural nflicts, ” the Washgton Post reported.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

'RADILISED TEENAGER' KILLED TWO OUTSI SLOVAKIA GAY BAR - PM

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. 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.

OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED

Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar. Gay pubs are far more than bars; they’re refug. On Sunday, the first a new seri of rabow plaqu will be stalled at the Gloucter – now the Greenwich Tavern – cementg s place gay home the workg-class Medway area of Kent, where we met when he sold me a phone cred rd at the lol petrol statn, “queers” like were wily perceived as predatory, perverted, spic or simply scum.

”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.

The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark.

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

The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.

For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn.

Like many workg-class, closeted gay boys, I’d hi unr the glovebox of my boyiend’s Nova when we drove back om the park, lt anyone saw.

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you.

Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. Is that ditive of the typ of gay porn the mols were traed on?

HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa Acquire Licensg RightsBRATISLAVA, Oct 13 (Rters) - A "radilised teenager" shot ad two people outsi a gay bar Slovakia's pal Bratislava, Prime Mister Eduard Heger said. LGBTI, n be tolerated, " he said they have not yet termed the motive behd the shootg and asked the public for patience as they looked to the possibily that was a hate media reported the ma spect had posted msag wh the phras "hate crime" and "gay bar" hashtagged on Twter.

Oslo’s annual Pri para was nceled on Saturday followg a adly shootg at a gay bar that Norwegian police are vtigatg as a possible terrorist attack. Two people were killed and eight others taken to hospal after the shootg near the London Pub, which scrib self on s webse as “the largt gay and lbian venue Oslo. Photo cred: globalgayz/facebook.