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Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history.

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY: 50 SLA AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

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

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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. An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said. While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said.

A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter. She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS.

Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando.

WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY: 50 SLA AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

A history of attacks on gay nightclubs. A June 24, 1973, arson attack on the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar, killed 32. A fire termed to be arson tore through the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, killg 32 people.

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