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
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- 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.
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.
OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
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.
CCDH data verg May 2021 to May 2023 seen by Rters shows the narrative was rare prr to the bill’s Meyer, a UCLA scholar who is a leadg expert on LGBTQ mental health strsors, said ’s ighteng to see a rurgence of old, false narrativ, like gay people harmg children. “An event, like the ‘Don’t Say Gay bill, ’ n crease the onle chatter.
“They’re stgglg to fd anythg on me, so they manipulate my image to post about this and make seem like I’m somebody I’m not, ” said Band, who has tweeted photos of herself age-appropriate clothg at fay events rponse to the posts targetg Band, the current atmosphere feels like “we’re gettg down to ‘Pri at s roots, ” notg that Pri began as a yearly memoratn of the Stonewall rts that broke out New York Cy after police stormed a gay bar June 1969. Panda Dulce was jt about to beg her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched to the library yellg homophobic and transphobic slurs. “That is what sr me the most—what happened [] San Lorenzo is merely the most recent lk of premedated homophobic and transphobic vlence, ” she said.