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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Five people were killed, and 18 people jured, when an attacker opened fire at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, on late Saturday night.
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.
SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE PED STATE’S ‘RED FLAG’ GUN LAW
Until the mass shootg Orlando, the adlit attack on LGBT people the U.S. belonged to New Orleans. A 1973 gay bar arson attack killed 32. * the gay club attack *
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COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
Erik Bottcher, the cy uncil member reprentg Hell's Kchen, has joed other officials over the last week to warn that one or more people are dggg and robbg gay men the rponse to those attacks and the Colorado shootg, the Anti-Vlence Project, a non-prof group found 1980 after a spate of attacks on gay men, plans to hold a safety event at a Hell's Kchen gay bar on Wednday night.