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

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.7	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, Colorado Springs police said yesterday that more people were injured in the Club Q shooting than previously thought, and they provised the number of wounded
1:28.3	upward to 22. The massacre at the LGBTQ nightclub days before Thanksgiving took five lives
1:35.3	and came amid a surge in anti-LGBQ legislation and rhetoric and threats at drag events.
1:41.3	Where is this coming from? How can it be stopped? And is California as
1:46.0	queer friendly as it's made out to be? Forum is next. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
2:05.9	Many in the LGBTQ community expected another attack on a queer space since the Pulse Night Club
2:12.0	shooting in Orlando six years ago, making the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs on November 19th, tragically
2:20.3	predictable. The shooting took the lives of five people, Kelly Loving, Derek Rump, Ashley Paw, Raymond
2:28.0	Green Vance, and Daniel Aston. And with me now is Daniel Aston's friend, Elizabeth Pixie.
2:35.0	Elizabeth, welcome to Forum.
2:37.0	And thank you for coming to talk with us.
2:42.0	Hi.
2:43.0	I so appreciate you coming on to talk with us about Daniel.
2:46.0	I'm just so very sorry for your loss.
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