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.
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- 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
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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.
SPECT ADLY CLUB Q GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG CLAIMS TO INTIFY AS NONBARY
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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. 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.
CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB
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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.
FIVE PEOPLE AD AND MANY MORE JURED AFTER MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
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?
' I got sred, 'Sh, is he gay? ' And he's not gay, so I said, 'Phew... '"Brk said he and his fay are Mormons, and "you know, Mormons don't do gay.
We don't do gay.