Posted on 11/23/2022 1:34:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Long before the Nov. 19 shooting at an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs that killed five and injured at least 18, the city had a history as a flashpoint in American queer life.
Located in the traditionally red El Paso County—home to three out of five military commands in the county, and a region former President Donald Trump won with 56.2% of the vote in 2016—Colorado Springs is home to many conservative evangelical groups including, notably, Focus on the Family.
In the early 1990s, a time when gay rights were the subject of increasing restriction in many places across the U.S., the city had developed a reputation as a hub of anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Colorado became nationally known as the “Hate State” when Focus on the Family fought for the passage of Amendment 2, a state bill that was written by a separate conservative group led by a local Colorado Springs car dealer. Amendment 2, which passed in 1992 with 53% of the vote, prevented local jurisdictions from passing non-discrimination protections for queer folks.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down the amendment in 1996, but the effects of this policy were immediate, says Richard Skorman, a former Colorado Springs councilman.
Garrett Royer, Deputy Director of One Colorado, a state-wide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, says the city has a very tight-knit queer population and has become more inclusive in recent years.
“Is the [shooting] surprising? In some ways, no. But that doesn’t mean that it’s any less shocking. Colorado has this dark history as well,” Royer tells TIME.
After the attack on Club Q—the day before Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the transgender lives lost due to violence—many in Colorado Springs’ small queer community felt that dark history roaring back to life.
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Sodomites lust for dark places.
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Yeah it used to be non-woke conservatives. Those were the good old days...
Are they still trying to put the shooting on evil maga christians?
The whole LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ movement belongs in a dark place with the doors locked and welded shut.
And yet, the shooter was one of their own, a “They/ Them” variety of the LGBQTZXCVBNM crowd.
“...a region former President Donald Trump won with 56.2% of the vote in 2016...”
This has nothing to do with voting trends in that county, and nothing to do with the military commands. It has nothing to do with MAGA voters. Those killed were killed by an LGBTXTZYUVW person, one of their own. Given the killer's past history , he should have been locked away in a mental institution before it reached this point.
No MAGA person would ever sanction killing people minding their own business in their own club. That's not how MAGA rolls.
So sick of Sodom and Gomorrah and their scribes.
Bullshit.
Of course they are.
You should have seen the CNN talking heads reject the news that the shooter was an incel non-binary mad at the club goers for rejecting him.
Gee, now that you mention it...🤔
Oops. Written before the gay shooter problem was realized I take it.
All those nasty conservatives, but it was a pronouner that did the shooting.
Another report from the leftist media that supports sexual deviants. It’s a good thing that no one reads Time.
Yeah, where the sun don’t shine.
What they really mean by multiculturalism is worldwide cosmopolitanism, i.e. every form of debauchery, everywhere, all the time.
Had Aldrich ever gone to that bar? If he “identifies” as non-binary, he hangs out at homosexual bars.
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