“There are so few spaces and so few resources that when we find those spaces and those resources, they become a lifeline.”
Liz Guerra, right, Eli King, and Tiffany Blackwell embrace outside a vigil at All Souls Unitarian Church on Nov. 20 after the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado., the same words are used again and again. It was a safe haven. A safe place. A sanctuary whose reputation stretched far beyond the Rocky Mountains.
when a gunman stormed that sanctuary late Saturday night. The attack has horrified queer people across the country, but it has particularly rattled those for whom Club Q had functioned as one of the few places of rainbow refuge in a conservative corner of Colorado. before the attack was letting locals know the venue would be open on Thanksgiving for a Friendsgiving Dinner celebration for those with nowhere else to go. A place for people to call home — just like its owners wanted.People left flowers and other items at a memorial near Club Q on Nov. 20 in Colorado Springs.
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