wigs and clothes. and this is an absolute nightmare for his family. that is the sentiment i m hearing echoed by people coming to this memorial to pay their respects. can t imagine this happened in a place intended to be a safe space for people in the lbgtq community. i talked to sophie. and i want to play a bit of our conversation on how they were feeling about all of this. take a listen. this is not an easy day. this is a lot to just wake up to as a transgender person living in colorado springs. this is a hardesty to live in already. so waking up to something this in your face is just a reminder of the hate that we live with in this city every day and the love that we need to fight it with. we can t fight hate with hate. so we try to bring a little bit of love here today. reporter: and so folks here struggling to cope but still wanting to know the answer to
they found in club q may be gone forever. it is gone. how are we supposed to feel safe? is there anywhere you feel safe? i don t know anymore. as a lesbian or gay or trans anything like that, it s just hard to know that everywhere we go we get attacked. and we can never have a safe spot for ourselves. this is a hardesty to live in already. so waking up to something this in your face is just a reminder of the hate we live with in this city every day and the love we need to fight it with. well, most recent fbi statistics show the level of anti-gay attacks relatively stable nationwide. major cities, several of them, have seen dramatic increases. los angeles up 54%. chicago, 73%. and new york city, up 169% last year from just a year before. what s more, experts have been warning that a raft of