COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The attack at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, over the weekend has left the local LGBTQ community grieving.
At least five people were killed and dozens were injured in a late night shooting on Nov. 19, the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of the lives of transgender people who were victims of discriminatory violence.“Club Q is in shock, and in deep mourning, with the family and friends who had loved ones senselessly taken from them," the club said in a statement sent to ABC News.
“This is what happens when vitriol against us is left unchecked, when LGBTQ+ people are slowly being legislated out of existence, and everyone from legislators to hate groups to social media users use the same vile talking points about us, every day. This is what happens,” PFLAG National, an LGBTQ advocacy group, told ABC News in a statement. “Book bans; Don’t say gay; Violent protests at Pride; Bans on care for trans kids; Hundreds of pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation; It always leads to this.
“There's actually a term for this. It's called stochastic terrorism. And this is a documented phenomenon where when levels of hateful rhetoric towards a community rises, that it's followed inevitably by levels of hateful actions,” Kevin Jennings, CEO of LGBTQ legal advocacy group Lambda Legal, told ABC News.
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