Tag: Lgbtq Community
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Denver OKs rezoning for housing project for older LGBTQ individuals in historic neighborhood
The Denver City Council on Monday night approved a zoning change for a 31-acre plot in the city’s historic Clayton neighborhood, allowing its owner to build a housing project for older LGBQT individuals. Under the change, the land, located on the York Street Yards area at 3821-3897 N. Steele St and 3800-3840 N. York St.,…
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A year after Club Q: Events around Colorado Springs commemorate deadly attack
One year after an armed assailant unleashed a hail of bullets inside Club Q, killing five people and injuring 17 others, more than 200 people gathered outside the building to commemorate the lives lost and support the scores of people who still bear scars, physical and emotional, from the attack on what was considered an…
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Several Colorado Christian schools close Friday due to perceived threat
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At least three front range Christian schools closed their doors Friday as a precautionary measure after receiving threats supposedly connected to the International Transgender Day of Visibility or Trans Day of Visibility. Loveland’s Resurrection Christian School, Loveland Classical Schools and Longmont Christian School elected to…
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Colorado tattoo parlor holds benefit for Club Q victims
When Carl Sanders first heard about Saturday’s mass shooting that left five dead and 18 injured at Club Q in Colorado Springs, his first thought was to reach out to his friends in the LGBTQ community. “Thankfully, they’re all OK,” said Sanders, a tattoo artist at West Side Tattoo on Colorado Avenue. Once he knew…
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Club Q victim Derrick Rump: Bartender was ‘the heart of Club Q’
A loving friend. A straight shooter. A “star bartender.” An out-and-proud gay man. The superlatives poured in from friends and Club Q patrons following the news that Derrick Rump, a bartender at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in east Colorado Springs, was one of five people killed Saturday in a mass shooting that also left 18 people…