The survivors of the Colorado Springs shooting praised President Joe Biden's signing of a marriage equality bill but said the Club Q shooting had been the result of building anti-LGBT rhetoric.
James Slaugh barely lifted his right arm when he swore to tell the truth Wednesday morning. He’d been shot in the Club Q attack, and his left hand helped prop up his right as he prepared to testify about the anti-LGBT rhetoric that had proliferated before the shooting.
He recounted how his mother had learned to accept his sexuality, how the shooting was his worst nightmare and how he believed that growing anti-LGBT rhetoric had fueled it. He was joined by Michael Anderson, a Club Q bartender who described praying as he waited to die that night, and the club’s co-owner, Matthew Haynes, who reiterated his pledge to rebuild.
The hearing — focused on the rise of anti-LGBT violence and extremism in the United States — came a day after President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial unions. Haynes attended the signing ceremony and told the committee it was the first joy he’s experienced since the shooting.
“So I ask you today not simply what are you doing to safeguard LGBT Americans but rather what are you or other leaders doing to make America unsafe for LGBTQ people?” he asked.
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