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Nudieland, a haven for queer and trans punks, shattered by hate-fueled mass shooting
AI.com ^ | 08 17 2023 | Denny denny@reckonmedia.com

Posted on 08/21/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Last Friday at a backyard punk show, Quinn McClurg was taking photos of her friends smiling at 10:02 p.m. In mere minutes, the venue became a site of a mass shooting that targeted its queer and trans attendees.

The show was held in the backyard and garage area of Nudieland, a venue located south of Minneapolis, Minn. By the end of the night, six were injured and one was pronounced dead—a beloved member of the community known as August Golden.

McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman. Having moved to Minneapolis only in 2021, DIY shows like Nudieland were quick to take her in.

“DIY shows are one of the only regularly safe places for trans folks, queer folks, punks and everybody to get together and socialize,” McClurg told Reckon. “Because everybody you know and love is there. People you’ve worked in the encampments with, people you’ve done protests with—everybody’s there.” Nudieland is more than a home

Nudieland derived from its sibling venue, Disgraceland two years ago as an expansion. But it isn’t just a venue; Nudieland houses many of its punk patrons. A resident of the house who requested anonymity for their safety shared with Reckon that Nudieland never strove towards being a haven for queer and trans punks because it just already was to begin with.

The resident, who is also trans, said, “This is not a unique space. So many of the punkhouses I started going to, as young as 16, in and around Southside [Minneapolis], were the same way: there was no striving, we were just in it together, whoever walked in. We’ve always been freaks.”

SNIP

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: banglist; homosexualagenda; lgbt; massshooting; minneapolis; minnesota; nudieland; queers; trans; violence
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1 posted on 08/21/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Sins of every flavor abound.


2 posted on 08/21/2023 11:38:30 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: yesthatjallen

Does the shooter have a manifesto which we are not allowed to read?


3 posted on 08/21/2023 11:39:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“hate-fueled”

How do they know that? It could’ve been the FBI showing up at the wrong address.


4 posted on 08/21/2023 11:39:57 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: yesthatjallen
McClurg told Reckon. “Because everybody you know and love is there. People you’ve worked in the encampments with, people you’ve done protests with—everybody’s there.”

Dont any of these faggots actually have real jobs?

5 posted on 08/21/2023 11:40:20 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen

I must demand that NO PICTURES be posted. You will promptly be reported to Jim should you disregard this message! (J/k)


6 posted on 08/21/2023 11:40:43 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Hell is going to be a lot like Nudieland. Just no fun and games and a lot hotter.


7 posted on 08/21/2023 11:43:23 AM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Does the shooter have a manifesto which we are not allowed to read?

Do Minnesomalians write manifestos?

8 posted on 08/21/2023 11:43:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: yesthatjallen

As opposed to a Love filled mass shooting?


9 posted on 08/21/2023 11:45:43 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: yesthatjallen

I do NOT want to know how the firearms were smuggled into the place.


10 posted on 08/21/2023 11:47:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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The first impression is that someone is angry that people are expressing themselves in sexually diverse ways. Personally I think most people who object to such things also object to using violence as a way of showing their objection. I think it’s pretty easy to avoid nudieland. I personally never heard of it before now. At any rate I suspect a jealousy issue entirely within the “community” itself but no smart media person will miss an opportunity to misrepresent the cause at the very beginning.


11 posted on 08/21/2023 11:48:27 AM PDT by webheart
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To: Magnum44

This about a mass shooting not sex.


12 posted on 08/21/2023 11:48:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Other reports indicate the cops are looking for Latino suspects


13 posted on 08/21/2023 11:49:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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From the article:

According to the information they’ve collectively gathered, two men wandered upon the show and pursued two queer women.

In an Instagram post by MPR News, a user who attended the show commented, “They were trying to flirt with me and my friend—who both identify as lesbians—and we told them we weren’t interested and not to touch us. They got upset and eventually walked off, and less than a minute after [they] started firing.”

The Dan Bongino 48 hour rule should apply here. Something tells me that this will end up being a 'lover's spat' among the transgendered and lesbian communities, not a couple of MAGA straight guys inadvertently crashing a trans nightclub and shooting the place up because they got rejected.

14 posted on 08/21/2023 11:49:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Sounds like a pretty gross place to be. So the media will take 1 incident, blow it up, and use it to attempt to shame us all into allowing pedophiles and freaks access to our children.


15 posted on 08/21/2023 11:49:38 AM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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Nuke the site from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.


16 posted on 08/21/2023 11:51:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: vpintheak

The powers that be not only approve of pedophilia, they promote it and encourage it. We are a nation in decline


17 posted on 08/21/2023 11:51:43 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: George from New England

Indeed.


18 posted on 08/21/2023 11:52:20 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bullish

And it won’t be very enjoyable!


19 posted on 08/21/2023 11:52:33 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: yesthatjallen

Trans on Trans shooting?


20 posted on 08/21/2023 11:52:56 AM PDT by bort
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