Ed Sanders, 63, a regular at Club Q, had stopped by for a drink on the night of attack. He was shot in the back.
Minutes later, he was on the floor, a bullet lodged into his back. Next to him was the woman he recognized as Kelly Loving. They had never talked before, but she was a familiar face — and he tried to spring into action. “She was shot pretty badly,” he recalled from his hospital bed, “and her eyes were glazed over. She could hear, but she couldn’t breathe.”
The wounds in his back kept him from getting up, Sanders says, but a drag performer nearby joined in comforting her:Advertisement. More than a dozen others, including Sanders, were injured. The community he has loved for decades — one that has loved him back — will remain strong, Sanders says.For LGBTQ community, Colorado Springs shooting meant ‘safety betrayed’But, he says, not everyone in the LGBTQ community has found the same kind of support — particularly not in Colorado Springs. He has joined protests against efforts to limit gay and trans rights.
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