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    After Colorado Springs shooting, LGBTQ people in red California are on edge

    LOS ANGELES — After five people were shot dead in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Matthew Grigsby thought about Club 501. It was the only gay bar in Redding, a Northern California city of 93,000 that, like Colorado Springs, is deeply religious and conservative. There, Grigsby felt comfortable holding hands or dancing with another man. Club 501 closed this summer, leaving Grigsby ...
    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Nov 29, 2022 6 minutes
    Rainbow flags fly along Broad Street in rural Nevada City, Calif., in June 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — After five people were shot dead in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Matthew Grigsby thought about Club 501.

    It was the only gay bar in Redding, a Northern California city of 93,000 that, like Colorado Springs, is deeply religious and conservative.

    There, Grigsby felt comfortable holding hands or dancing with another man.

    Club 501 closed this summer, leaving Grigsby and other LGBTQ people without a place where they could be themselves. The news from Club Q in Colorado Springs was another gut punch.

    "There's no safe place anywhere," Grigsby, 53, said, his voice shaking. "It doesn't matter where we are or what we do. People are going to come for us."

    In politically red stretches of California — from the old logging towns in the north through the dusty farmlands of the Central Valley — the Colorado Springs massacre was yet another devastating reminder of how difficult and lonely it

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