Club Q Colorado Sprgs was LGBTQ bean amid anti-gay perceptns

Contents:

• COLORADO SPRGS WORKED TO CHANGE S ANTI-GAY IMAGE — THEN S SOLE LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB WAS TARGETED
• SPECT ADLY CLUB Q GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG CLAIMS TO INTIFY AS NONBARY
• CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB
• FIVE PEOPLE AD AND MANY MORE JURED AFTER MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

COLORADO SPRGS WORKED TO CHANGE S ANTI-GAY IMAGE — THEN S SOLE LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB WAS TARGETED

I was equally surprised by the size of the gay muny and the lack of queer spac, pecially downtown, ” Frankl wrote an email to USA TODAY.

Frankl and Wolfe ultimately land on their send act: a swanky gay piano bar lled ICONS, which they opened the muny 2020.

Club Q is known as the cy's sole LGBTQ+ Q SHOOTING VICTIMS: What we know about the Colorado Sprgs victims: An entertaer, a 'supportive' iend, an 'amazg mother'When Frankl and Wolfe first announced their plans for ICONS, they said many people exprsed ncerns given the cy’s history of anti-gay notably, 1992, relig fundamentalists om Colorado Sprgs wrote Amendment 2, a measure seekg to amend Colorado's nstutn by makg illegal to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. Supreme Court cy is also the headquarters of Foc on the Fay, a fundamentalist Prottant anizatn whose founr Jam Dobson is known for his stanc agast gay and trans while was able to operate for 37 years the cy, the Colorado Sprgs Pri Center was no stranger to sults and even ath threats, former board print Jack Danielsen the years before s 2015 closure, Danielsen remembers walkg to the center wh his hband only to fd all of s ont wdows had been shattered. "For a LGTBQ anizatn a heavily nservative area, was a pretty uphill battle, " Danielsen openg ICONS, Wolfe and Frankl said people told them, “'You n’t ll a gay bar.

SPECT ADLY CLUB Q GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG CLAIMS TO INTIFY AS NONBARY

The buildg, he said, still ho several anizatns that spng up durg the fight agast Colorado’s Amendment the measure had passed at all me as a surprise, but as a rult, Skorman said, Colorado Sprgs beme a hotbed of nservative and anti-gay activy, wh threats ma to his employe and bricks thrown through store wdows. I thought that I was dreamg or that was a nightmare bee was so siar to how I found out I had lost iends at Pulse, ” she June 12, 2016, when a gunman attacked the gay nightclub Orlando and killed 49 people, Kelley said she was livg jt two blocks away om the club. DENVER — The spect the adly massacre at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is nonbary, acrdg to fense attorneys, raisg qutns about whether the attack was motivated by anti-LGBTQ bias.

CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB

DENVER — The shooter who plead guilty to killg five people and jurg 17 others at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was sentenced Monday to life prison. Until recently, Club Q was the only LGBTQ club a cy wh a reputatn of beg a nservative stronghold and a history of beg anti-gay. Saturday’s attack fell on the eve of Transgenr Day of Remembrance – observed honor of the liv of trans people lost to anti-trans vlence and hatred – and is remiscent of the Pulse massacre Orlando, which a shooter killed 49 people at the gay nightclub six years ago.

FIVE PEOPLE AD AND MANY MORE JURED AFTER MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

Jared Polis, the natn’s first openly gay ernor, orred flags lowered to half-staff at all public buildgs statewi for five days to honor the five victims at Club Q. The father of the acced Club Q shooter has exprsed relief that his child isn't Brk, the father of Anrson Lee Aldrich, gave a homophobia-filled terview to San Diego TV statn KFMB.

Brk, 48, who has worked as a porn star and mixed martial arts fighter and ach, said he wonred what his offsprg was dog a gay bar. "And then I go on to fd out 's a gay bar. I said, 'God, is he gay?