“For such an ugly thing to happen here is not right.” “There was so much laughter here and love here,” said Sophie Aldinger, 23, who is nonbinary. “We’re here not just paying respect to the people we’re paying respect to the club,” said Shenika Mosley, 34, who was there with her wife, Jennifer Pena-Mosley, 23. The day after the shooting, mourners showed up outside the venue to honor the dead, the wounded and Club Q itself, lest the world misunderstand the scope of their grief. When that happens, places like Q give us a place to find new family that we choose and, in turn, who choose us.” “In conservative towns like Springs, a lot of us got pushed away from birth families because we couldn’t keep lying to ourselves and those we care about. “It was a home for a lot of us,” said Victoria Kosovich, 34, who is transgender, lives in a rural community just outside of Colorado Springs and used to perform at Club Q as a drag queen. It’s more than a bar or nightclub, they say - it’s a community center. To understand what has been lost, according to longtime patrons, one must see Club Q not as a threat but as a sanctuary.
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