‘We are being slaughtered and dehumanized’: Club Q owner shames anti-LGBTQ+ House Republicans

The hate crime mass shooting during a drag show at Club Q, a Colorado Springs nightclub that catered to LGBTQ people and their friends and families, left five people dead, 25 people injured, and a suspect with 305 criminal charges. Club Q co-owner Matthew Haynes testified before Congress Wednesday, telling lawmakers that LGBTQ people are being “slaughtered and dehumanized,” as he read a few excerpts from what he says are the “hundreds” of messages of hate he received in the wake of the attack. On December 1, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security published its latest terrorism threat report, and …

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