A mass shooting at a popular gay club in Colorado Springs has resurfaced questions about the city's past and future among its residents.
couldn't help but reflect on how such a display of support would have been unthinkable just days earlier.
“It feels like the city is kind of at this tipping point,” said Candace Woods, a queer minister and chaplain who has called Colorado Springs home for 18 years. “It feels interesting and strange, like there's this tension: How are we going to decide how we want to move forward as a community?” “I have been thinking for years, we’re in the middle of a transition about what Colorado Springs is, who we are, and what we’ve become,” said Matt Mayberry, a historian at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.
She said she found community at Club Q when she would return from college. But she didn't forget people and groups with a history of anti-LGBTQ stances and rhetoric maintained influence in city politics.Club Q’s co-owner, Nic Grzecka, toldhe’s hoping to use the tragedy to rebuild a “loving culture” in the city. Even though general acceptance the LGBTQ community has grown, Grzecka said false assertions that members of the community are “grooming” children has incited hatred.
Yemi Mobolade, an entrepreneur running for mayor as an independent, didn't understand how strong Colorado Springs' stigma as a “hate city” was until he moved here 12 years ago. But since then, he said, it has risen from recession-era struggles and become culturally and economically vibrant for all kinds of people.
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