A gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle attacked an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs late Saturday night, killing five people and injuring at least 25.
Of course. Of course they’re related. Again, there is a straight line between those types of actions, those types of threats, literal threats, against people who are just going for story time or a drag queen celebration, you know, and a Transgender Day of Remembrance, right? Of course these are all related.
And because they go unanswered, because we don’t see any type of follow-up or prosecution, because we’re not holding people accountable — right? — then it just continues. Every day there’s a hate crime in Colorado and across this country that either is unreported or underreported, you know, because folks know — because folks know and have experienced the fact that their attack has been pushed to the side.
We’re still not even calling this a hate crime, what happened in Colorado Springs. And I don’t know why we have to wait before we call it that. This was an act of hate. This was an act of terror. This was an intentional act to pushpeople back into the shadows, to make them feel unsafe in one of the few places where we actually do feel safe and love and supported. It’s wrong.
And so, as I listened to the intro before this program, I sympathize with the patron who talked about how — you know, how can we feel safe again in this place? It’s going to be hard. But I encourage us all to go back out. I encourage us all to be ourselves, to be out and to be proud of who we are and to say we’re not going away just because of this hate. But we need allies. We need our champions to step up and say something, too. We cannot let this go unanswered.
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