Empowering LGBTQIA+ Lives

•  – Associated Press (AP) – Nov 21, 2022 – An AP news story about the victims of the Club Q shooting. Natalee Skye Bingham, a close friend of victim Kelly Loving, recounts that the last thing she told Loving on a FaceTime call was “Be safe. I love you,” and remembers Loving as “like a trans mother” who taught her how to live day to day as a trans womansentinelcolorado.comsentinelcolorado.com.

 – Colorado LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce – 2022 – Natalee Bingham was honored by the Colorado LGBTQ Chamber in its 2022 “40 Under 40” list of business leaders. Her profile highlights her accomplishments as a “quintessential millennial entrepreneur,” noting that by her twenties she had built two businesses, purchased property, and grown a credit-repair startup (“Back to Skye High Credit LLC”) into a multi-figure enterprise within two yearscolgbtqcc.orgcolgbtqcc.org. This recognition reflects Bingham’s leadership in business and her prominence in the LGBTQ+ entrepreneurial community in Denver/Aurora.

– Out Front Magazine (Colorado) – Jan 4, 2023 – Coverage in Colorado’s LGBTQ+ magazine honoring those killed at Club Q. In the tribute to Kelly Loving, Out Front notes that as a trans woman she had faced violence before. According to Natalee Skye Bingham – Loving’s close friend – Kelly had been “beaten, stabbed, and even shot at” in the past, yet enduredoutfrontmagazine.com. Bingham’s reflections underscore Loving’s toughness and caring nature, providing context to the significance of her loss for the community.

 – Good Morning America (ABC News) – Nov 19, 2023 – A one-year anniversary piece reflecting on the lives of the Club Q victims. Friends and family share memories, and Natalee Skye Bingham offers insight into Kelly Loving’s “fighting spirit.” Bingham says Kelly “taught me a lot about my whole transition and is someone I look up to in the community,” expressing how deeply the loss has hit hergoodmorningamerica.com. The article shows how Loving’s legacy lives on in those she mentored and how the community has demonstrated resilience amid ongoing grief.

– Denver7 News (ABC) – Jan 19, 2023 – A profile of Natalee Skye Bingham and Angela Williams, both survivors of human trafficking, during Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Bingham, a transgender woman, recounts how an abusive partner groomed and trafficked her, and credits meeting Williams (who had escaped her own trafficking situation) in 2017 as the turning point that eventually gave her the strength to get out herselfdenver7.comdenver7.com. By sharing their traumatic experiences, Bingham and Williams aim to illuminate the issue and help other survivors find a path to freedom, with Bingham emphasizing self-love and the hope that their stories can inspire others to seek helpdenver7.com.

• – KOAA News5 (NBC, Colorado Springs) – late Nov 2022 – A segment from Colorado Springs’ local news profiling Kelly Loving. It highlights Loving’s life and the circumstances of the shooting, including a note that she had been living in Denver and was visiting Club Q for a night out. The piece features Natalee Skye Bingham’s testimony (via NBC News) that Loving called her from a restroom at Club Q just three minutes before the shooting began. Bingham recalls her final words to Loving were “Be safe, I love you,” underscoring the shock and heartbreak of losing someone she considered familykoaa.com.
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– Denver7 News (ABC) – Dec 20, 2022 – A Denver7 feature story focusing on community resilience a month after the shooting. It spotlights Natalee Skye Bingham, who lost her close friend Kelly Loving in the tragedy, and notes that this was Bingham’s second experience surviving a hate-driven mass shooting. Bingham describes answering Loving’s FaceTime call minutes before the attackdenver7.com, and the article recounts how Bingham herself narrowly escaped the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Despite feeling less safe, she chose to respond with strength, visiting the Club Q memorial exactly one month later and speaking out against the hate that caused the violencedenver7.comdenver7.com.

 – The Guardian – Nov 22, 2022 – An international news piece profiling the five Club Q victims. In the section on Kelly Loving, the article includes Natalee Skye Bingham’s account of their friendship. Bingham became friends with Loving years ago in Florida and was FaceTiming her immediately before the attack. She told reporters she was devastated by Loving’s loss – “she was such a good person… now it’s one less person at my table” – and said Loving “taught me how it was to be a trans woman and live your life day to day”theguardian.comtheguardian.com.

 – Seattle Gay News – Nov 25, 2022 – A national LGBTQ+ community news article on the Club Q shooting’s impact. It notes that Kelly Loving, a 40-year-old trans woman visiting from Denver, was one of the victims, and shares Bingham’s tribute to her. Natalee Bingham described Loving to The New York Times as “like a Trans mother to me… It’s like I lost my real mother, almost,” remembering that she had been on a video call with Loving just before the tragedysgn.org.

– Them – Nov 21, 2022 – An article on Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ outlet Them memorializing Kelly Loving. It highlights Bingham’s perspective as Loving’s close friend: Loving was “like a trans mother” to Natalee Skye Bingham, teaching her to be tough and navigate the world as a transgender womanthem.us. Bingham told the New York Times that just minutes after Loving said “be safe” and “I love you” on a call from Club Q, the shooting beganthem.us.

– Los Angeles Blade – Nov 21, 2022 – Coverage in an LGBTQ+ publication about Kelly Loving being identified among the Club Q victims. The piece features quotes from Natalee Skye Bingham, a close friend of Loving, who had just spoken with her minutes before the attack. Bingham describes Loving as “a tough woman” who taught her how to live proudly as a trans woman, and emotionally recalls telling Loving “Be safe. I love you” just before the call endedlosangelesblade.comlosangelesblade.com.

• – Denverite – Nov 21, 2022 – A Denverite article focusing on Kelly Loving’s life and impact, with reflections from friends including Natalee Skye Bingham. Bingham calls Loving a trailblazer who “got us our rights… by not giving up” and says Loving instilled confidence in others; she vows to continue Loving’s legacy through activism, fighting for trans rights and against gun violence in her friend’s honordenverite.comdenverite.com.
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