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Contents:
- MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
- AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
- SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL
- GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
- DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
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AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
In 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wound more than 50 at a gay nightclub Orlando one of the adlit attacks US history. ”The Denver Brons profsnal Amerin football team said would have a moment of silence for Sunday’s victims before their game later that first openly gay elected ngrsman om Illois, Eric Sorensen, tweeted reactn on Sunday: “As we pray for those fightg for life, we mt e loud voic to stand up agast hate. This article was amend on 20 November 2022 to note that Sorensen was the first openly gay elected ngrsman om Illois as opposed to the first such ngrsman.
22, 2022, wh photographs of the five victims of a mass shootg at the gay. DENVER (AP) — A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there’s no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag" law that would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had wh ntrol advot say Aldrich’s June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc.
SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL
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GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
Speakg a vio statement released by UC Health Memorial Hospal, 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. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.
Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.
Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.