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Palm Springs LGBTQ+ community unites after Colorado gay club shooting

You might call them a tight-knit group.

In the wake of tragedy, they grab their needles and yarn and knit together.

"Time and time again, it ends up being the LGBT community," Doug Morris said. "We are coming together with our friends just to be together."

Morris has put together classes and meet-ups that are uniting dozens of people each week. This one was Monday morning at The Center in Palm Springs, after yet another mass shooting in America.

"It has emotionally got us through some very, very difficult times," Morris said. "It's in the back of our minds all the time that we as a community are targeted, we as a community are hated."

For some in the community, the 'knit together' is a place they feel at ease. "It's nice to have a safe space," said Alan Davis.

Just as Club Q was a safe space in Colorado Springs.

Tomás Prower, director of communications at The Center, said LGBTQ unity stopped worse tragedy from happening there.

"It was our community that helped stop the gunman, coming together and preventing more injury," he said. "We have to look out for each other, especially in times like this when who else will?"

That's a daily reality that folks in the knit together community commit to a couple times each week.

"We are a community," Morris said. "You don't have to be gay to be a member of our group. You don't have to be straight... We could just be here to support each other."

They come together in good times and in bad, united together against hate, with love stitched into the very fabric of the community.

Officials with The Center said they hope advocacy will come out of the mass shooting. The Center's behavioral health clinic has trained therapists available for people experiencing trauma from the shooting. Reach out on thecentercv.org.

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