The Club Q Shooting: When Tragedy Becomes a Trope
<p>In film, when a saying or plot development becomes recognizable (Chekov’s gun, or the second-act breakup in a rom-com), it becomes known as a trope, perhaps even a cliché. All of the above events have become recognizable enough to qualify as tropes. But calling them clichés seems crude and insensitive.</p>
<p>But the more these events occur after a mass shooting, the more every-day they become. And tropes become cliché the more they’re seen.</p>
<p>Like others who were more personally connected to a shooting, I was in a daze all week. Living in Denver, I know plenty of people who frequent the two queer bars in Colorado Springs. Even though my friends weren’t at Club Q that night, they could have been. Having frequented the queer bars in Denver makes the shooting in the Springs all the more real to me. There’s not that much distance between Colorado Springs and Denver.</p>
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