For LGBTQ+ People, Colorado’s Club Q Mass Shooting Came as Little Surprise

Daniel Aston, Kelly Loving, Derrick Rump, Ashley Paugh and Raymond Green Vance. They were the five people gunned down when a shooter entered an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado last weekend and opened fire, in a terrifying massacre that also injured 22. LGBTQ advocates had been warning that a mass killing would follow the Pulse nightclub shooting six years ago, citing alarming increases in violence against transgender and non-binary people and rising anti-trans and anti-queer legislation and rhetoric. We’ll hear how LGBTQ+ communities in Colorado Springs, nationwide and here in California are responding and coping in the aftermath.

Guests:

Jo Yurcaba, reporter, NBC Out, the LGBTQ section of NBC News.

Elizabeth Pixie, friend of Daniel Aston, who was killed in the Colorado Springs Club Q shooting.

Nick Vargas, director of development and strategy, The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia, CA.

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