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Contents:

• ‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS
• 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• 2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS
• 'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER, ADLY ATTACK AT NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR REMAS UNSOLVED
• ‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER

‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS

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We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive). Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.

‘I Got an Umbrella and Ambn’: Indictment Reveals Alleged Conspiracy Behd Gay Bar Deaths. A seri of dgggs and robberi — cludg two fatal overdos — outsi bars 2022 left New York's gay muny on edge. In the sprg of 2022, two men were dgged and robbed after leavg gay bars New York.

50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

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2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS

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'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

- A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday morng at a Florida nightclub -- which scrib self as "Orlando's hottt gay bar" -- left an timated 50 people ad, cludg the gunman, and more than 50 jured, officials say. Orlando shooter's father says son had "anti-gay leangs, " @CBSNews' Mark Strassmann reports CBSN (@CBSNLive) June 12, 2016Dyer said that addn to the 50 people who were killed the attack, 53 were treated for juri.

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ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER, ADLY ATTACK AT NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR REMAS UNSOLVED

Three people were killed and another was jured a h-and-n crash Chigo outsi a famo gay bar early Sunday, police said. Chigo Chief of Detectiv Brendan Deenihan said a news nference Monday that an argument started si the Jefey Pub, a gay bar on Chigo's South Si, that spilled out to the street around 5:00 a.

But bee the Up Stairs Lounge was a gay bar and all but one of the ad were gay men, the police vtigatn of the arson was sual and plete. The crime remaed ath toll om that June 24, 1973, arson -- the adlit crime agast gays the U. That’s when, durg natnal Gay Pri week, the ath toll was surpassed at Pulse, a gay bar Orlando, Florida.

A plaque the siwalk at the former entrance to Up Stairs Lounge New Orleans memorat the victims of an arson attack on the gay bar on June 24, 1973. But the Up Stairs Lounge arson 1973 occurred before there was a natnal gay pri day, week or month, and when homosexual activy was a crime.

‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER

This iendly, neighborhood gay muny bar hated to live or socialize openly. The Up Stairs Lounge was a place they uld mararie was bolstered by the weekly attendance of at least a few members of the nearby Metropolan Communy Church -- a lol branch of a natnal church that misters to gays.

The 1969 Stonewall rts New York’s Greenwich Village had lnched the natnal gay pri movement, but had yet to reach New Orleans.

Sgg Uned We Stand was the clost any regular at Up Stairs Lounge got to gay 7:56 p. His headstone stands there on nsecrated New Orleans, 1973Today, gay men may not feel judged enterg a gay bar. Gay men kept each other’s secret of beg gay, so they leaned on each other.