Campaign to send holiday cards to LGBTQ folks shunned by their families is back for second

By Heidi Stevens

It grew out of something repellent and blossomed into something beautiful, like the flowers that burst through sludge or cracked pavement, so determined to grow and survive.

A gunman had just opened fire inside Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people and injuring 19.

The club was a safe haven for LGBTQ folks, and the murders sent all-too familiar waves of horror and grief through the community and its allies.

Through a whole nation, really, fed up with gun violence — random, targeted, all of it.

That was Nov. 19, 2022.