Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

[Nevilledog]

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-20/colorado-springs-club-q-shooting-republican-anti-gay-politics

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It’s 6:30 a.m., and my wife already has the news silently scrolling in the dark. “Colorado Springs,” she says. My bleary eyes focus on the carnage — again. It’s been six years since she woke me up early on a Sunday whispering “something terrible happened in Orlando.”

In 2016, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in which a young man killed 49 people, I was a lawyer at the Human Rights Campaign. I spent the day on conference calls and drafting letters to Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and other federal officials pleading for swift investigations and additional protection for the Orlando LGBTQ community.

At the end of that day, I just held my toddler and cried, replaying the names of the victims and remembering my own coming out in Oklahoma City’s small, joyful lesbian bars. I understood the relief these spaces carve out of an otherwise hostile horizon.

Pulse seemed unimaginable. The attack on Club Q is anything but. Although we do not yet know the killer’s motive, the target is all too familiar. This latest shooting, in which at least five people in Colorado were killed late Saturday night when a gunman once again opened fire inside an LGBTQ nightclub, follows six years in which far-right leaders have led American politics down a fearful blame spiral fueled by homophobia, xenophobia and racism.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Johnny2X2X]

2. This needs to stop now

Their whole grooming narrative is their code for calling LGTBQ folks pedophiles. That’s what’s been going on for years now. And not just fringe elements, but the leaders of their party. The biggest names in the GOP both political and media. It’s led to violence and now this. It’s not OK and the normal media should have been pushing back on this the first time they used this language. It’s so dangerous and it 100% is meant to incite violence.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. this nonsense has been going on before qanon. heard it all my life

[brer cat]

4. K&R

[yankee87]

5. Cried also

Thanks for your post. You feel like I do. Again thank you.

[Nevilledog]

7. You're in the wrong place.

And you're disingenuous.

[Cha]

8. Oh yes.. it didn't happen in

a vacuum.

That murderous brainwashed asshole just sacrificed his life for Stupid Brainwormed HATE.

[Demovictory9]

9. Matt Walsh..youtuber with millions of subscribers..his whole schtick is anti trans

With a side of anti gay

[czarjak]

10. Matt Walsh...POS. Period.