GLAAD calls out hateful rhetoric after deadly Colorado shooting | USA TODAY

LGBTQ+ communities feared possible violence after an increase in hateful rhetoric during midterm elections, according to GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.

RELATED: Colorado Springs honors heroic actions of patrons who tackled shooter

Club Q was a longtime bar and dance club, a safe haven for this conservative city's LGBQT community, with theme nights, foam parties, drag queen brunches and lip-sync competitions. It was a place where bartenders were friends, one that felt like a second home.

Authorities said a 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle inside the Colorado Springs nightclub Saturday night, killing five people and leaving 17 others injured with gunshot wounds. At least seven were in critical condition, authorities said. Some were hurt trying to flee, and it was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokesperson said.

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33 comments

  1. America should divide the 50 states on ethnic, religious and ideological lines. Each group gets it’s own state. If you are an atheist living in a christian state, you’re just a guest and vice versa. You give the big ethnic group two states each, and the natives a state of their choosing, then divide the rest on religion and ideology. Sunni Islam would get it’s own state too.

    1. Put a link on here showing Ron having anything to do with this or any violence against gays. Your just running your mouth like the virtue signaling super heros you all on the left are. Maybe people like Ron, wouldn’t have to stop people in his state from grooming kids if y’all would get it in your heads that that’s not your kids. 80 percent of this country are getting tired of the 20 percent thinking they can groom our kids.

    2. @Christin Burdge  DONT SAY GAY BILL AND LOOK AT ALL HIS ANTI TRANS GENDER BILLS, REMOVING AND BAN BOOKS IN SCHOOLS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH GAY, RACE, OR TRANSGENDER. I LIVE IN FL. HE ALSO GERRYMANDERED BLACK AND BROWN DISTRICTS THAT VOTE DEMOCRATIC AND TURNED THEM RED. HE CHEATED THIS IS ALL PUBLIC INFO. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO GOOGLE? MY 10 YEAR OLD IS CAPABLE OF RESEARCHING THIS BASIC INFORMATION

    3. HE’S ANTI GAY, ANTI TEACHER, ANTI MINORITY, ANTI TRANS, ANTI SCIENCE THIS IS THE FACE OF A FUTURE PRESIDENT IN OUR COUNTRY 🤮🤮🤮

    1. Who did he support? Just so u know. Mall shooting that killed blacks was a white liberal make up wearer. Wakeshua Christmas parade killings was a deranged, white hating black man. Uvalde? Yep. Make up wearing, Spanish Biden supporter. Sounds like your side is the death side. I dare u to walk through Chicago.

    2. @Christin Burdge  Republicans are known for their despise in women and any one who isn’t a wealthy white man. Now they want to make women 2nd class’s citizens telling us what we can or can’t do with our bodies and lives. New republican party is like a cancer we need to get educated and understand who they’re for. But they hate to divide the country and fear monger uneducated weak people to vote for them

    1. If he was, than it’s a false flag. Set up by fbi. O no we killed 5. Y’all kill 5 people every ten minutes in this country. Your fees fees get hurt to easily. And Jesus hates gays. His dad’s not a fan, however, Satan, the child diddler, loves them.

  2. Yesterday I was watching CNN NEWS, Binance CEO was talking about how investors and traders can make millions. And he recommended an expert called Lawrence Hite please can someone tell me more about his trading services..?

  3. Look here! This is not the way to prevent monkeypox being spread to children and dogs! And “Bug chasers” have the right to spread as much disease and death as possible. These are not crimes against humanity. Just misunderstood people being bold & beautiful.

  4. What hateful rhetoric? You mean free speech? Because there is no such thing as hate speech. All speech is free speech including unpopular opinions

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