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Contents:

• ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
• INSI AN ORLANDO GAY BAR, THE NIGHT AFTER THE SHOOTG
• OPN WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AN ORTHODOX JEWISH NGREGATN WENT TO A GAY BAR TO MOURN ORLANDO
• TRAGIC MASS SHOOTG AT GAY BAR ORLANDO
• BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• GAY BARS SEE CREASED SECURY, CTOMERS ACROSS USA ONE WEEK AFTER ORLANDO
• ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
• THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

ORLANDO — A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire si a crowd gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leavg 49 people ad and 53 jured the adlit mass shootg U.

But also igned fears of a broar mpaign agast the Amerin gay, lbian and transgenr muny as the first anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriage after the Orlando attack, police Southern California reported arrtg a heavily armed man who said he was head to a gay pri para the Los Angel area — though thori later said they were mistaken about the man’s target. Meanwhile, Washgton, police stepped up patrols ahead of the Capal Pri Ftival, one of dozens of gay pri events schled this month across the natn and around the world. (Vio: Moni Akhtar/The Washgton Post, Photo: STEVE NESIUS/The Washgton Post)The Islamic State has repeatedly executed gay people and released vios showg their gome executns.

“We’re proud of our gay muny Orlando, ” Mary Zika early Sunday eveng, a Florida LGBT advocy group had raised nearly half a ln dollars for the victims.

INSI AN ORLANDO GAY BAR, THE NIGHT AFTER THE SHOOTG

A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police said. The shootg Sce s openg 2004, Orlando’s Pulse dance club had tablished self as one of central Florida’s most vibrant centr for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social life. — A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another.

OPN WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AN ORTHODOX JEWISH NGREGATN WENT TO A GAY BAR TO MOURN ORLANDO

11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry. Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para.

Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.

Saturday night was Lat Night at Pulse, one of the cy's bt-known gay clubs, and the place was packed wh patrons both gay and straight, young and not-so-young, om the U.

TRAGIC MASS SHOOTG AT GAY BAR ORLANDO

But "the FBI has found no evince so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or munited on gay datg apps, " acrdg to the Los Angel Tim.

BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

The drag queen stood before the crowd at a gay bar Orlando on Sunday night – ls than 24 hours after 50 people were shot and killed at a siar bar only a few away – whout her drs, heels or wig. “I don’t really know what to say, ” Darcel Stevens, the 55-year-old performer a T-shirt, told the crowd of mostly gay men. Qutns like those were on the lips of many who gathered on Sunday night at Parliament Hoe, a gay hotel, bar and club near downtown Orlando.

Amerin attus about lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people have done an about-face recent years. And regardls of what the exact motive may be, a gay club — a place to get away, to dance and have fun, ee om discrimatn or judgment – was the target. Like the time Garstka, the lol activist, was attacked and feared and would be beaten to ath 20 years ago, as he scribed to me, while leavg a gay club.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

And the Stonewall rts, 47 years ago, led to the morn gay rights movement. Monday, we would travel om our synagogue Northwt Washgton to a gay bar as an act of jt wanted to share the msage that we were all tremendo pa and that our liv were not gog on as normal.

Others were visg om Los Angel but joed full voice, clearly knowg the Hebrew words to the song we were we were sgg, I looked over at some gay members of our ngregatn and saw tears flowg down their fac.

GAY BARS SEE CREASED SECURY, CTOMERS ACROSS USA ONE WEEK AFTER ORLANDO

I learned that when a rabbi and members of an Orthodox synagogue walk to a gay Ain Amerin bar, is not the openg le of a joke but an opportuny to nnect; is an opportuny to break down barriers and e together as one; is an opportuny to learn that if we are gog to survive, we all need each the vtigatn to the Orlando mass shootg looks likeLaw enforcement officials gather outsi the Pulse nightclub, the scene of Sunday's mass shootg Wednday, June 15, 2016, Orlando, Fla. Orlando's LGBT Bars Rpond Differently To Pulse Massacre The Orlando shootgs sent a wave of shock across a cy known as a premier statn for gay nightlife.

The Orlando shootgs sent a wave of shock across the cy that is known as a premier statn for gay nightlife.

NPR's Kirk Siegler reports the cy's dozen or so gay bars and nightclubs are rpondg differently to the SIEGLER, BYLINE: Savoy, a small neighborhood gay bar Orlando's Lake Ivanhoe district, is crowd - people drkg and lghg.

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

At least one of the largt gay clubs closed after the shootg at the requt of police so safety and secury protols n be reasssed.

THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED

Orlando's Metropolan Bs Associatn - the gay chamber - says other LGBT bs have closed to give their employe time to grieve.

Orlando, Florida's gay muny is "utter shock" after fallg victim to the worst mass shootg U. Related: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club"We are sayg we are apologizg for the whole cint.

Related: Gay Blood Ban Still Effect Orlando"Gay clubs hold a signifint place LGBTQ history. We stand solidary wh the LGBTQ muny #Orlando, " the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) said a Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt LGBTQ civil rights group, said he was "vastated. Print Barack Obama said Sunday: "This is an pecially heartbreakg day for all our iends — our fellow Amerins — who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.