Episode 216: The Club Q shooting

On the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2022, a person armed with a rifle walked into Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ club in Colorado Springs, CO. What followed was a bloodbath.   Videos:

• Video of Club Q shooting suspect previous threat
• WATCH: Club Q shooting survivor on how LGBTQ people are ‘continually being dehumanized’
• Watch: Suspect accused of killing five people in the Club Q mass shooting appears in court
• Club Q Mass Shooting Survivor: It Was Home And To Not Have That Anymore Hurts

Articles and books:  

• Timeline: Club Q emergency response
• What We Know About the Colorado Springs Shooting
• Gay club shooting suspect evaded Colorado’s red flag gun law
• Colorado Springs Survivor Recounts Terror of LGBTQ Club Shooting: 'All I Could Think of Was Pulse'
• Army Veteran Went Into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Club Q Gunman
• Colorado police prioritize proper pronouns, names of shooting victims
• Focus on the Family’s Colorado Springs headquarters sign vandalized days after Club Q mass shooting
• LGBTQ club shooting suspect’s troubled past was obscured by a name change, records show
• Anderson Lee Aldrich: A history of family travail, personal violence
• Police found rainbow-colored shooting target, map of Club Q in suspect’s apartment
• Preached at, spat on, threatened, Colorado Springs' transgender community grapples with the Club Q attack
• Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Says Colorado Victims Reaping Consequences of ‘Eternal Damnation’
• El Paso Sheriff's Office Statement Regarding Previous Arrest and Charging of Alleged Club Q Shooter Anderson Aldrich