Colorado L.G.B.T.Q. Club Says It Will Reopen After Mass Shooting
An L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs where five people were killed in a mass shooting in November announced this week that it will reopen by the fall.
Club Q has been closed since a person wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15-style rifle walked in during a drag show just before midnight on Nov.
19, a Saturday night, and moved through the space as he opened fire. In just a few minutes, five people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured before club patrons were able to subdue him.
Matthew Haynes, the founding owner of Club Q, said in a statement on Monday, members of the venue’s staff “are working very hard to bring our home back.” “It has been two decades now that we have kept the doors open as a place where everyone, regardless of gender identity or who they love, had somewhere to belong,” he said in the statement, which was posted to the Club Q Instagram account. “We look forward to being able to gather as one community again,” he added.
