Posted on 11/28/2022 6:46:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After five people were shot dead in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Matthew Grigsby thought about Club 501.
It was the only gay bar in Redding, a Northern California city of 93,000 that, like Colorado Springs, is deeply religious and conservative.
There, Grigsby felt comfortable holding hands or dancing with another man.
Club 501 closed this summer, leaving Grigsby and other LGBTQ people without a place where they could be themselves. The news from Club Q in Colorado Springs was another gut punch.
"There's no safe place anywhere," Grigsby, 53, said, his voice shaking. "It doesn't matter where we are or what we do. People are going to come for us."
The Colorado Springs attack comes at a time when hateful rhetoric against LGBTQ people — especially from Republican politicians and conservative pundits — is on the rise.
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without a place where they could be themselves.
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I thought it was their bedroom.
My bedroom is where I can be myself.
Chances of a straight person killing an othersexual in a hate crime or shooting up a club full of them?
The Florida shooter was Muslim and gay too.
Well if they come to “purge” me I guess they had better pack a lunch and a lot of battle dressings.
A 7.62x51 millimeter cartridge with a ball round makes a hell of a hole.
lots of gays in Sacramento too and its closer
Being an "group insider" means he had the ability to do recon on the target without raising suspicion.
Lions, and tigers, and bears! OH MY!
We might go back to acknowledging mental illness and promoting actual treatment. Whatta tragedy THAT’D be. /SARC
That’s exactly the case leading to the massacre. But additionally, the local OPD screwed up royally. They were Valde to come. Dozens of people bled out that day in Orlando because the cops were cowards, imo.
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