Club Q Owner Matthew Haynes: We Are Being Slaughtered and Dehumanized
Club Q LGBTQ Nightclub Co-Owner testifies at a congressional hearing on anti-LGBTQ violence. Five people died at the Colorado club after a… read more
Club Q LGBTQ Nightclub Co-Owner testifies at a congressional hearing on anti-LGBTQ violence. Five people died at the Colorado club after a gunman opened fired on patrons on the night of November 19. He calls on Congress to safeguard and protect their human rights and calls out those 169 members who voted against the Respect for Marriage Act that President Biden signed into law in a White House ceremony on Tuesday. "We are being slaughtered and dehumanized across this country...LGBTQ issues are not political issues. They are not lifestyle. They are not beliefs. They are not choices. They are basic human rights," Haynes says. close
People in this video
- Michael Anderson Mass Shooting Survivor
- Sarah Kate Ellis President and CEO Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- Matthew Haynes Co-Owner Club Q LGBTQ Nightclub
- Stephen F. Lynch U.S. Representative [D] Massachusetts
- James Slaugh Mass Shooting Victim
- Shontel Brown U.S. Representative [D] Ohio
- Cori Bush U.S. Representative [D] Missouri
- David N. Cicilline U.S. Representative [D] Rhode Island
- Michael Cloud U.S. Representative [R] Texas
- James R. Comer U.S. Representative [R] Kentucky
- Byron Donalds U.S. Representative [R] Florida
- Pat Fallon U.S. Representative [R] Texas
- Virginia Foxx U.S. Representative [R] North Carolina
- Jimmy Gomez U.S. Representative [D] California
- Glenn Grothman U.S. Representative [R] Wisconsin
- Yvette Herrell U.S. Representative [R] New Mexico
- Jody B. Hice U.S. Representative [R] Georgia
- Olivia Hunt Director National Center for Transgender Equality->Policy
- Mondaire Jones U.S. Representative [D] New York
- Fred Keller U.S. Representative [R] Pennsylvania
- Robin Kelly U.S. Representative [D] Illinois
- Charles Lehman Fellow Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
- Carolyn Maloney U.S. Representative [D] New York
- Ilan Meyer Senior Scholar University of California, Los Angeles->Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
- Eleanor Holmes Norton Congressional Delegate [D] District of Columbia
- Jessie Pocock CEO and Executive Director Inside Out Youth Services Advocacy Organization
- Katie Porter U.S. Representative [D] California
- Ayanna Pressley U.S. Representative [D] Massachusetts
- Jamie Raskin U.S. Representative [D] Maryland
- Kelley Robinson President Human Rights Campaign
- Rashida Tlaib U.S. Representative [D] Michigan
- Brandon Wolf Mass Shooting Survivor