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Politics
Club Q owner read to Congress the hate mail they got after the shooting
“The shooter was doing God’s work,” read one message Club Q received. “All gays should die.”
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News (USA)
Club Q shooter’s lawyer used he/him pronouns in court after claiming killer is nonbinary
Was Anderson Aldrich’s courtroom claim of nonbinary identity a strategy to get out of hate crimes charges or did Aldrich’s lawyer misgender his client?
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News (USA)
Club Q shooter charged with 305 counts, including murder & hate crimes
The prosecutor said the number of charges shows how seriously they’re taking the case.
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Politics
Joe Biden sent letter to Club Q’s owners offering sympathy after the shooting
“Each life lost leaves unanswered questions, broken hearts, and deep, griping sorrow.”
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Politics
Lauren Boebert lashes out at LGBTQ critics
Lauren Boebert says she has never said anything bad about LGBTQ people while she spewed hateful lies about LGBTQ people.
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News (USA)
Club Q shooter used anti-gay slurs frequently before attack on LGBTQ bar
“He used the term ‘fa***t’ a lot,” a neighbor said. “Most of the time it came from a place of anger.”
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News (USA)
LGBTQ bar shooting brings additional pain at Stonewall Inn Trans Day of Remembrance event
“Reporters wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the shooting,” one attendee said.
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Commentary
The Colorado Springs gay bar shooting happened on Trans Day of Remembrance. They’re connected
Society uses LGBTQ people as fodder for advancing patriarchal Christian white supremacist authoritarian agendas.
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Politics
AOC tells Republicans to “connect the dots” after CO Springs LGBTQ bar shooting
“Look inward and change.”
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Politics
Chasten Buttigieg slams Lauren Boebert for tone-deaf tweet after CO Springs shooting
“Get off Twitter and start looking inward.”
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News (USA)
He was on the dance floor when the shooting started. What he says will break your heart
He was celebrating his birthday. Take the two minutes to watch.
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News (USA)
BREAKING: Multiple dead after mass shooting at LGBTQ bar in Colorado
In a statement posted on social media, the bar said that customers sprang into action and subdued the shooter.
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Health and Wellness
Conversion therapy survivor says the Mormon church pays for its members to undergo it
A Mormon survivor of ex-gay therapy dropped this bombshell: Even though the Mormon church says it opposes conversion therapy, they pay for congregants to go through it.
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News (USA)
Transgender girl crowned homecoming princess at Colo. high school
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A transgender student was crowned homecoming princess at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, high school. The Gazette of Colorado Springs reported Saturday that Scarlett Lenh received the majority of the votes from her junior class at Sand Creek High School, besting three other girls for the honor.
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News (USA)
Air Force Academy: No legal basis to terminate former ex-gay therapist
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Air Force Academy said Friday that the academy will not fire or transfer a research analyst who came under fire last month for his history of work with organizations that seek to change gays’ and lesbians’ sexual orientations.
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News (USA)
Air Force Academy cadets: No anti-gay culture, issues with ‘ex-gay’ activist
COLORADO SPRINGS — A group of openly gay U.S. Air Force Academy cadets said Friday they have had no negative interaction with, or objections to the continued employment of a former conversion therapy counselor and long-time proponent of the ex-gay movement.
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News (USA)
Colo. man says college’s use of the word ‘queer’ is offensive, should be illegal
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gay man says Colorado College’s listing of “queer” as an option for the gender of job applicants is insulting and should be illegal.
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News (USA)
U.S. Air Force Academy graduates first openly gay cadets
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In another historical moment in the post-“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era, the the U.S. Air Force Academy this week graduated its first group of openly gay cadets.
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News (USA)
Yearbook staff shake-up over photo of lesbian students holding hands
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Two high school yearbook staff members said they were fired, and two others quit in protest after their faculty adviser instructed them to remove the photo of a lesbian couple from the yearbook.
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News (USA)
Gay soldiers in Colorado attacked, beaten in possible hate crime
A group, including two gay soldiers from Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located near Colorado Springs, were attacked in a possible hate crime early Saturday morning.