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Commentary: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows 6 brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

People hold a vigil at a makeshift memorial near the Club Q nightclub on Nov. 20, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after a 22- year-old gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday, and opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before being stopped by club patrons.

It’s 6:30 a.m., and my wife already has the news silently scrolling in the dark. “Colorado Springs,” she says. My bleary eyes focus on the carnage — again. It’s been six years since she woke me up early on a Sunday whispering “something terrible happened in Orlando.”

In 2016, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in

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