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Families with trans kids flee to Colorado as other states ban gender-affirming care
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Families with trans kids flee to Colorado as other states ban ...
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Colorado House advances two name-change bills after contentious debate and anti-transgender rhetoric
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Colorado House advances two name-change bills after contentious debate and ...
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women inmates: Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed ...
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women ...
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Man accused in Colorado gay bar shooting facing murder and hate crime charges: Court records show the man suspected of killing five people and injuring others at ...
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Man accused in Colorado gay bar shooting facing murder and hate crime ...
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Colorado police prioritize proper pronouns, names of shooting victims: Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez read the preferred pronouns and names of the ...
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Colorado police prioritize proper pronouns, names of shooting victims
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GUEST COLUMN: Legislation, rules threatens transgender people's rights: In America over 500 bills have been proposed this year alone, all against transgender ...
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GUEST COLUMN: Legislation, rules threatens transgender people's rights
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Colorado Springs police said they made an effort not to misgender Club Q victims. Here’s why that matters
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Colorado Springs police said they made an effort not to misgender Club Q ...
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“An Act of Hate”: 5 Dead in Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ Club on Eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance
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“An Act of Hate”: 5 Dead in Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ Club on Eve of ...
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Biden calls veteran credited with taking down Club Q gunman: President Biden on Tuesday called Richard Fierro, an Army veteran who has been credited with taking ...
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Biden calls veteran credited with taking down Club Q gunman
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Five patrons were killed and at least 17 others were injured in a shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado ... Show more
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No motive known yet: Colorado assassin sees himself as transgender: After the fatal attack at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado ...
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No motive known yet: Colorado assassin sees himself as transgender
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Colorado Springs Shooting Follows Years of Threats Against Drag Shows: Club Q, where five people were killed in a shooting over the weekend, had been scheduled ...
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Colorado Springs Shooting Follows Years of Threats Against Drag Shows
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Editorial: It will take all of us to end the anti-LGBTQ+ hate and gun violence: Hate against LGBTQ+, as displayed in the senseless gun violence in Colorado ...
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Editorial: It will take all of us to end the anti-LGBTQ+ hate and gun ...
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'There's blood on your hands': Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged ahead of Club Q shooting
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'There's blood on your hands': Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged ahead of Club Q ...
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LGBTQ community 'in deep mourning' after Colorado Springs shooting : At least five people were killed and dozens more were injured.
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LGBTQ community 'in deep mourning' after Colorado Springs shooting
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Queer Spaces Have Never Been Safe — But We Will Continue To Create More: The Colorado Springs shooting proves that to be visibly queer is to choose our happiness ...
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Queer Spaces Have Never Been Safe — But We Will Continue To Create More
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Mass shooting at LGBT+ club follows wave of threats to drag performers and venues
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Mass shooting at LGBT+ club follows wave of threats to drag performers and ...
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Lauren Boebert accused of hypocrisy over prayers for LGBTQ+ club shooting: Far-right Republican congresswoman has record of anti-LGBTQ+ statements that advocates ...
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Lauren Boebert accused of hypocrisy over prayers for LGBTQ+ club shooting
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Young transgender Coloradans on the mental health toll of fighting for the right to exist
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Young transgender Coloradans on the mental health toll of fighting for the ...
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Young LGBTQ Americans search for hope as they grieve in Colorado Springs: The memorial outside Club Q in Colorado Springs has become a space for LGBTQ young ...
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Young LGBTQ Americans search for hope as they grieve in Colorado Springs
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I’m a Pulse survivor. Rightwing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric made the Club Q massacre inevitable
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I’m a Pulse survivor. Rightwing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric made the Club Q ...
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AOC Slams Lauren Boebert's 'Anti-LGBT Hate' After Colorado Springs Shooting: The outspoken progressive Democrat accused her Republican colleague of spreading ...
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AOC Slams Lauren Boebert's 'Anti-LGBT Hate' After Colorado Springs ...
Quick Glance: AOC Slams Lauren Boebert's 'Anti-LGBT Hate' Following Colorado Springs Shooting
  • Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, chastised her House colleague Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, on Sunday for her anti-LGBTQ language in the aftermath of the Colorado Club Q massacre.

  • "The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful," tweeted Boebert.

  • "[Lauren Boebert] you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

  • "After Trump elevated anti-immigrant & anti-Latino rhetoric, we had the deadliest anti-Latino shooting in modern history," Ocasio-Cortez added.
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Club Q shooting follows years of GOP anti-LGBTQ rhetoric: Far-right candidates characterize queer and transgender people as 'groomers' and their families as ...
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Club Q shooting follows years of GOP anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
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Transgender bartender found community at club where he was fatally shot: Daniel Aston was a bartender at Club Q in Colorado Springs and was killed in the ...
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Transgender bartender found community at club where he was fatally shot
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Colorado LGBTQ club shooting: Suspect held on murder, hate crime charges: The suspect remains hospitalized and is being held on preliminary charges.
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Colorado LGBTQ club shooting: Suspect held on murder, hate crime charges
Quick Glance: Murder and Hate Crimes Charged Against Suspect in Colorado LGBTQ Nightclub Massacre
  • A former military veteran named Richard Fierro has been recognized as the individual who confronted and disarmed the shooter.

  • Fierro was to Club Q with his wife, daughter, and Raymond Green Vance, his daughter's boyfriend, to attend a drag show.

  • Richard Fierro: "I want those five families to know that's all I care about."

  • Fierro was deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan, and he told The New York Times that the experience still haunts him.
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‘Have a voice for us’: Mother of trans victim killed in Colorado Springs points finger at legislators
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‘Have a voice for us’: Mother of trans victim killed in Colorado Springs ...
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‘He lit up a room’: Transgender bartender among five dead in Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
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‘He lit up a room’: Transgender bartender among five dead in Colorado ...
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"Our community is shattered. This is the only LGBTQIA+ space we have in the city of Colorado Springs."

Joshua Thurman described the scene at Club Q ... Show more   https://nyti.ms/3AA275L

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Serriffs in Colorado county have refused to enforce red flag laws: Sheriffs in El Paso County, where the shooting occurred, previously said it would not enforce ...
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Serriffs in Colorado county have refused to enforce red flag laws
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Violence Against LGBTQ: The 602nd Massacre in the USA 2022: Many firearm hate crimes in the United States are directed against transgender people ...
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Violence Against LGBTQ: The 602nd Massacre in the USA 2022
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A center for anti-trans vitriol, Colorado Springs was ripe for violence: Anderson Lee Aldrich, the Club Q shooting suspect, deployed homophobic rhetoric ...
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A center for anti-trans vitriol, Colorado Springs was ripe for violence
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Colorado Democrats, Republicans clash over Equal Rights Amendment: Bipartisan lawmakers stood shoulder to shoulder Thursday morning in recognition of the Equal ...
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Colorado Democrats, Republicans clash over Equal Rights Amendment
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President of the Human Rights Campaign: ‘They’re launching a culture war against our kids’
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President of the Human Rights Campaign: ‘They’re launching a culture war ...
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Colorado Springs gay bar shooting comes amid backdrop of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric: This rampage has renewed fears of the potential connection between America’s weak ...
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Colorado Springs gay bar shooting comes amid backdrop of anti-LGBTQ ...
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Live updates: Investigation into Colorado Springs shooting: At least five people were killed and 25 others were wounded in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub ...
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Live updates: Investigation into Colorado Springs shooting
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Hours before Colorado shooting, a Salt Lake City LGBTQ+ club celebrated trans lives. Now, it’s upping security.
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Hours before Colorado shooting, a Salt Lake City LGBTQ+ club celebrated ...
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Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric leads to violence, advocates say in wake of Club Q shooting: Minutes before the start of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the ...
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Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric leads to violence, advocates say in wake of Club Q ...
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Pelosi mourns ‘senseless slaughter’ at LGBTQ nightclub: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned a shooting overnight at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs ...
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Pelosi mourns ‘senseless slaughter’ at LGBTQ nightclub
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Fox guest says shootings will continue until transgender care ends: ‘If I say what needs to be said I’m gonna be banned’
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Fox guest says shootings will continue until transgender care ends
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Bigotry couldn’t fuel a red wave. It led to the Colorado shooting instead: While the country may have suppressed the broader menace of an authoritarian-minded ...
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Bigotry couldn’t fuel a red wave. It led to the Colorado shooting instead
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Colorado Assassin: Prosecutors Investigate Hate Crimes: Did the Colorado shooter deny his victims' sexual orientation? The public prosecutor's office is now ...
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Colorado Assassin: Prosecutors Investigate Hate Crimes