Colorado Club Shooting Follows Rise in Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric, Violence
Saturday’s massacre is the latest in a string of attacks on the community
Bouquets of flowers sit on a corner near Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Photographer: David Zalubowski/APThe massacre at Club Q on Saturday night is the latest incident to rattle the LGBTQ community in the US, following a rise in hateful rhetoric, laws, and violence targeting the group.
This year alone, White nationalists have been arrested at Pride events and showed up at drag queen story hours. Children’s hospitals in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Ohio have faced a barrage of harassment, including bomb threats, after coordinated attacks from anti-trans groups. And in New York City, the owner of a gay bar said an unknown individual has thrown a brick through the windows of his establishment three times in a week.