Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events
Contents:
- GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
- OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
* gay pride attacks *
Amatr vio of the cint shared onle by LGBTQ activists showed protters screamg anti-gay slurs their targets’ fac. In the San Francis Bay Area, a group of men displayg Proud Boy lors stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library shoutg homophobic and transphobic threats after anti-LGBTQ LibsofTikTok swl Chaya Raichik posted rmatn about the event onle. Overseas, two people were killed and 21 jured when a shooter opened fire at the London Pub gay bar Oslo.
OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
The 42-year-old spect, Zaniar Matapour, has been an active member an Islamic extremist work wh ti to Arfan Bhatti, a Norwegian Islamic radil wh strong anti-gay views.
Lrdale, a Florida man wearg a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt was arrted after brandishg a load gun outsi a popular gay bar. Ron DeSantis’s 2022 iative limg LGBTQ discsn school through the third gra, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, to now ver all public school gras. A report om the Center for Counterg Digal Hate (CCDH) and Human Rights Campaign last year found a 406% surge “groomg” tweets the month after the “Don’t Say Gay” bill passed March 2022.