Catherine Caruso: How Colorado Rep. Boebert rubbed salt in the wounds of the LGBTQ community. - NBCNewsTHINK
have been brought against the suspect in the shooting, it’s hard not to draw a direct line from the purveyors of this violent rhetoric to the fact that this act of violence happened at an LGBTQ club.
For too long, their words and actions have inspired others to harass and threaten LGBTQ people at gay bars, Pride events and drag shows, and now their hateful rhetoric has helped incite a deadly attack that has stolen precious lives. What else did they expect was going to happen? You can’t constantly stoke fear and hate and not expect violence to ensue.
Being an LGBTQ person in this country is already hard enough. Having your entire existence constantly politicized, as if your very humanity is a question up for debate, is hard enough. But now, even our safe spaces are being attacked and taken away from us — the very spaces we were forced to create because society didn’t want to have to see us in public in the first place. We deserve so much more than this.
Want more articles like this? Follow THINK on Instagram to get updates on the week’s most important political analysis At the end of the day, an attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and this attack was the inevitable culmination of nonstop fearmongering and baseless conspiracy theories targeting our community. Any Republican leader who has the nerve to offer up their hollow “thoughts and prayers” after helping to mainstream this blatant homophobia and transphobia shows just how shameless and boundless their hypocrisy really is.
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