LGBTQ+ Arizonans Gather in Mourning and Defiance After Deadly Gay Bar Shooting

This story originally appeared on The Advocate.LGBTQ+ organizations in Arizona will hold a vigil Wednesday for two men killed outside a longtime gay bar, as advocates warn that a note found with the suspected gunman indicates other queer gathering places may also have been targeted. The apparent target in Tucson was larger than one gay bar.When a gunman killed Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, outside Venture-N early Monday, he was carrying a note listing several LGBTQ-friendly businesses, police said. The discovery transformed a double killing into evidence that the violence may have been intended to continue across the city’s queer gathering places.Now, Tucson’s LGBTQ+ community is preparing to gather in one of them — publicly, collectively and in defiance of the fear such an attack was designed to produce.Related: Gunman kills 2 at Arizona gay bar with other LGBTQ+ venues on apparent hit listGLAAD joined local organizations and elected officials Tuesday in mourning Siqueiros and Capara ahead of a vigil scheduled for Wednesday evening.“Once again, our community is grieving after a deadly and senseless act of hate,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. Ellis called on elected officials to confront gun violence and the escalating hostility directed at LGBTQ+ people.As The Advocate previously reported, officers responded to Venture-N, a longtime gay bar, around 12:30 a.m. local time Monday. Police found Siqueiros, Capara and suspected gunman Ousman Ceesay, 44, with gunshot wounds. The two victims died at the scene. Ceesay died at a hospital.Investigators said Ceesay confronted the two men in the parking lot before shooting them. Tucson Mayor Regina Romero later said he had addresses for multiple LGBTQ-friendly venues and intended “to cause more harm.”Police are investigating the killings as a hate crime. Chief Monica Prieto said authorities had found no indication of a continuing threat, but officers h