One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.
Contents:
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
- FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
- MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
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But this week, the cy is also memorializg a years ago today, a gunman opened fire Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando, killg 49 people and woundg more than 50.
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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wi mural and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. * pulse gay *
It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime.
WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
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In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by. A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn.
FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
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” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women. The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg.
So he equented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studd drag shows and bachata-sountracked “Lat Nights. “What happened at Pulse was … kd of labeled as a gay issue, when realy wasn’t.
But before “Pulse” me to mean “one of the adlit mass shootgs US history, one that primarily targeted people of lor at a gay nightclub, ” Pulse was synonymo wh home. But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.
MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
In his first year as Florida ernor 2019, Ron DeSantis paid a somber vis to the memorial for the 49 people who lost their liv when a man opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. * pulse gay *
”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.
Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13.
The Supreme Court of Ghana has thrown out a su seekg to place an junctn on the anti-gay bill beg bated by Parliament. A ne-member Supreme Court panel prid over by Chief Jtice Gert Torkonoo has dismissed a requt that halts Parliament’s nsiratn of the anti-gay bill. Senate unanimoly passed legislatn signatg the se of the gay club a natnal Hoe passed s versn of the bill May 12.
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Ron DeSantis signed a new state budget that cut fundg for Orlando’s LGBTQ Communy Center and an anizatn that ho homels LGBTQ, now media relatns manager for Equaly Florida, said the cuts meant DeSantis “has clared war” on the state’s gay muny. Pulse as the first nfirmed bisexual operator Rabow Six: Siege, a tle which has also add a gay character named Flor and a transexual protagonist named Osa.
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Durg the attack, gunman Omar Mateen lled 911 and pledged allegiance to the lear of the vilently anti-gay Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a group that releas propaganda vios of gay men beg thrown off buildgs. The reason he chose Pulse seemed obv: he hated gay days after the attack, on June 16, 2016, Print Barack Obama vised survivors Orlando and livered a statement. ”A few days earlier, printial ndidate Donald Tmp said at a rally, “A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn.