Alec Berg

When the gunman who killed five people at Club Q opened fire in November 2022, queer bars across Colorado took a hard look at how they would protect their patrons. Nearly four years later, a federal appeals court has ruled that the shooting victims and relatives of the dead cannot sue the bar’s owner over its security measures.  But for bar owners and managers across the state, the question of who could be held responsible after a shooting is secondary to a more immediate one: What can they do to keep their patrons alive? On Wednesday, a three-judge panel in […]