Survivors of last month’s Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, testified at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday regarding anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, extremism and violence. Michael Anderson, the only Club Q bartender to survive the shooting, described the fear he felt as he stared “down the barrel of a gun” during the Nov. 19 attack. James Slaugh, a survivor of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, listens during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled “The Rise of Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States” at the Rayburn House Office Building on Dec. 14, 2022, in Washington, D.C.