Club Q was a liberating space for bartender and entertainer Daniel Aston, a 28-year-old transgender man. On Saturday it became the site of the latest mass shooting in the U.S. when a gunman killed Aston and four others.
“We are in shock, we cried for a little bit, but then you go through this phase where you are just kind of numb, and I’m sure it will hit us again,” she said. “I keep thinking it’s a mistake, they made a mistake, and that he is really alive,” she added.
After coming out to his mother, he attended Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and became president of its LGBTQ club. He put on fundraisers with ever-more flashy productions and fanned over ’80s hair bands. ″ are great. Everybody needs to go see him,” his mother said. “He lit up a room, always smiling, always happy and silly,” she said.
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