For Immediate Release:
November 21, 2022

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Jaki Lawrence
Strategic Communications Director, Cobalt

COBALT ADVOCATES STATEMENT ON CLUB Q ATTACK

 

Denver – We are heartbroken, devastated, and outraged by the attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night. We are especially heartbroken to see this act of violence occur in what should have been a safe space—and on the eve of Trans Remembrance Day.

Everyone has the right to bodily autonomy and the right to raise their families in safe communities. That includes being free from the threat of gun violence.

Gun violence is a public health crisis that politicians refuse to address. Colorado, in particular, is all too familiar with this kind of senseless gun violence—it was seven years ago this week that Robert Deer, motivated by right-wing conspiracy theories, murdered three people, including an abortion provider, at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs. 

It’s no coincidence that the same politicians who refuse to take action against gun violence are the same ones who pass abortion bans, “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, and relentlessly attack our trans brothers and sisters. 

Attacks like the one on Club Q and the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood aren’t committed by “lone wolf” actors: they are acting on the hate and violent rhetoric spewed by right-wing politicians. The same politicians who will offer only “thoughts and prayers” when someone acts on their words. Enough is enough.

We urge our elected leaders to address the public health crisis that is gun violence and encourage our communities to continue to fight back against hatred and bigotry in all forms.

We rise in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community and will not stand by while these attacks on our loved ones continue.  

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