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COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
The man spected of killg five people and jurg others at Club Q, a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, is facg murr and hate crime charg. * colorado gay bar friendsgiving *
It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space.
Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door. Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler). Tra also helps fill a blank spot that particular area’s Denver’s gay scene, wh a perch along Santa Fe Drive and diverse programmg that rang om drag shows and DJ nights to leather nights and beer bts.
The name stretch back to the 1970s when the slim brick buildg hosted a gay club lled Triangle, and was a tryout spot for var, unsuccsful bars and craft rtrants after the origal Triangle closed the early 2000s. Like Lucid, #Vybe featur a b more diversy than many gay bars, wh drag queens of lor and top tourg queens like Adore Delano swgg through regularly, addn to stand-up edy, game nights, Denver Brons parti (the cheerlears even stopped for a show recently) and lots more. 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.
7 BT GAY BARS AND QUEER SPAC DENVER, CO
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). 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. Richardson/medianews Group/the Denver Post Via Getty Imag | Denver Post | Getty ImagThe man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crim charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot urt rerds showed that 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich faced five murr charg and five charg of mtg a bias-motivated crime g bodily jury Saturday night's attack at Club Q.
There's no public rerd prosecutors ever moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Police Chief Adrian Vasquez 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. We did some searchg and found some of the most fun gay bars the area, too.