After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bartenrs. Those bars and other LGBT spac around the untry are aga weighg how to keep their staff and patrons safe after a gunman killed five people and jured 17 more at an LGBT club Colorado Sprgs. Many worry that physil secury measur n only go so far, and that stnchg a surge of flammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric is a better tactic.
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- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- SHOOTG AT GAY CLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED
- WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
- ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
- SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE PED STATE’S ‘RED FLAG’ GUN LAW
- COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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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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ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
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By Jonathan AllenNEW YORK (Rters) - After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bars and other LGBT spac around the untry are aga weighg how to keep their staff and patrons safe after a gunman killed five people and jured 17 more at an LGBT club Colorado Sprgs. Many worry that physil secury measur n only go so far, and that stnchg a surge of flammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric is a better Club Q attack, which is beg vtigated as a hate crime, has pound the fear and anger of a muny already nontg a wave of Republin legislatn directed at transgenr youth and gay Amerins, and what they say is a related rise threats and vlence agast s members. "It's really tirg for the gay muny that time and time aga we have to e up wh the solutns for problems that other people make, " said Jonathan Hat, executive director of Drag Queen Story Hour, a nonprof group that aniz drag performers readg books to children 45 stat that has been repeatedly targeted and threatened this year.
SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE PED STATE’S ‘RED FLAG’ GUN LAW
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COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
In Orlando, people grappled wh the magnu of the horror: One man armed wh an asslt rifle and a pistol managed to kill 49 people and wound another 53 si a gay nightclub. 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. 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.