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• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

— A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said firearms, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene at Club Q, said Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was “sickeng. ”Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays, acrdg to s addn to the drag show, Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertament clud a “punk and alternative show” precedg a birthday dance party, wh a Sunday “all ag bnch. Air Force Amy, as well as Foc on the Fay, a proment evangelil Christian November 2015, three people were killed and eight wound at a Planned Parenthood clic the cy when thori say a man opened fire bee he wanted to wage “war” on the clic bee performed shootg brought back memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., that killed 49 people.

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SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

Jeremiah Harris, who is 24 and gay, said he went to Club Q a uple tim a month and regnized one of the victims as the bartenr who always served him. “Gay people have been here as long as people have been here, ” Harris said. It also rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

5 Dead, 18 Injured Gay Nightclub Massacre...

SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL

Another massacre at a gay club has left 5 ad and at least 18 jured.

A gunman opened fire at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. This is far om the first attack gay clubs. (AP) — The spect a mass shootg at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea al to state murr and hate charg that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wound 17, several survivors told The Associated of a possible legal rolutn of last year’s Club Q massacre follows a seri of jailhoe phone lls om the spect to the AP exprsg remorse and the tentn to face the nsequenc at the next schled urt hearg this month.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

Onle gamg iends said Aldrich exprsed hatred for the police, LGBTQ people and mori and ed anti-Black and anti-gay slurs. And a police tective ttified that Aldrich sent an onle msage wh a photo of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para. " He was taken to police ctody shortly after the shootg began and was beg treated for juri, acrdg to shootg was remiscent of the 2016 Pulse club massacre, when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub of that name Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by unfold as LGBTQ muni and alli around the world prepared to mark the Transgenr Day of Remembrance on Sunday, an annual observance to honor victims of transphobic Q, a long-tablished venue a most strip mall, was scribed by many as a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny Colorado's send-largt of the victims was intified as Daniel Aston, 28, a transgenr man and bartenr at the club who also performed shows as a dancer, acrdg to a Colorado Public Rad terview wh his mother, Sabra Aston.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man the untry to be elected as a ernor, lled the shootg a "sensels act of evil. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

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. An attacker opened fire a gay nightclub late Saturday night, killg five people and woundg at least 25, officials said.