‘Enough is enough’: grief and anger in Colorado Springs over gay nightclub shooting

Among the mourners outside Club Q, there was little doubt anti-LGBTQ hatred was a motivating factor in the deadly attack

While officials held off on releasing a motive in the shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed at least five people and injured another 25, there was little doubt among the thousands of mourners who have now gathered across the city: they believe the motive was hate.

It has to stop," said the Rev Roger Butts of the All Souls Unitarian church, of what he described as a social and political landscape in the US rampant with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and misinformation. Enough is enough. We have to stand up."