DENVER — Colorado LGBTQ organizations still working through grief over last month’s mass shooting at Club Q are taking into account new security concerns raised by a recent federal terrorism bulletin as they look ahead to events such as next summer’s Denver Pride celebrations.
The Department of Homeland Security recently warned that the United States remains in “a heightened threat environment,” specifically mentioning that LGBTQ spaces are a potential target for terrorist attacks, along with public gatherings, faith-based institutions, schools, and racial and religious minorities.
DHS observed people on online forums “known to post racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist content” praising the Club Q shooter, the bulletin said. Domestic extremists in the U.S. also praised an October shooting at an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia and encouraged additional violence, according to the bulletin.
