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   On 19 Nov 2023, Nige  posted some   
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   > No problem, just burn it down as soon as it's rebuilt.   
      
   COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Sprinkled with handwritten notes, stuffed   
   animals and flowers, a memorial honoring the five victims killed and   
   dozens injured last November still stands along the rainbow facade of the   
   now-shuttered Club Q. The silence at the site ahead of the one-year   
   anniversary of the deadly shooting evoked the community’s grief as it   
   struggles to move forward amid lingering tension.   
      
   The queer community here is splintered, divided over Club Q ownership’s   
   goal of reopening what was once a safe and accepting space for LGBTQ   
   residents. Survivors of the shooting also say they’re concerned that the   
   venue’s management team is prioritizing profit over reuniting the   
   community. Meanwhile, as the injured are still healing — physically and   
   emotionally — they say donations intended for them were distributed too   
   slowly and with considerable red tape.   
      
   “The community still feels loss, and I think the community still feels   
   lost,” survivor Wyatt Kent told NBC News.   
      
   Kent, who uses both he and they pronouns, was a drag performer at Club Q   
   and lost their boyfriend, bartender Daniel Aston, in the shooting. They   
   said trust has dissolved between what they say is a majority of the former   
   staffers and regulars at Club Q on one side, and the Club Q ownership team   
   and the handful of survivors who are now working with them on the other.   
      
   Many survivors of the Nov. 19, 2022, shooting, including Kent, said they   
   are uncomfortable with the idea of Club Q reopening in any form, whether   
   it be at the original location or a new location. For months, they’ve been   
   protesting the ownership’s decision to reopen, saying it would force them   
   to relive the trauma of watching a gunman open fire on what was once their   
   safe space.   
      
   In February, the venue’s management team said it would reopen the club in   
   the same location and would add an on-site memorial to those killed in the   
   attack. Then, in October, it was announced that the club would reopen in a   
   new location 4 miles away. Construction is currently underway in a former   
   lounge space at the Satellite Hotel in Colorado Springs, with plans to   
   open by the end of the year, when it will simply be called “the Q.”   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/one-year-club-q-shooting-   
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