Gay bar attacks have taken place for years before Orlando's horrific Pulse nightclub massacre. Here are 25 that should remd we mt rema vigilant.
Contents:
- GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
- 25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
- PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- A HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY NIGHTCLUBS
- HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN
- RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS
- 5 KILLED, 18 INJURED IN SHOOTG INSI GAY NIGHT CLUB IN US
- OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
- SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’
GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
The ernor of Colorado, who is gay, mend the "brave dividuals who blocked the gunman", scribg the attack as "horrific, sickeng and vastatg". * attacks on gay nightclubs *
"Heroic people" nonted a gunman who killed five people at a gay nightclub the US and stopped him killg any more, police have least 25 others were jured at Club Q the cy of Colorado Sprgs. At least two firearms were found at the scene and the FBI is assistg wh the vtigatn, Mr Vasquez officers are workg to intify those that died, and to tablish whether anyone helped the Polis, the ernor of Colorado, who is gay, mend the "brave dividuals who blocked the gunman", scribg the attack as "horrific, sickeng and vastatg" more: There are mass shootgs elsewhere, but Ameri's problem wh guns stands alonePrint Joe Bin said: "Plac that are supposed to be safe spac of acceptance and celebratn should never be turned to plac of terror and vlence.
Eleven ambulanc and 34 firefighters attend the scene, wh the cint scribed as "a mass sualty event" Castro said officers were able to enter the club area around the nightclub, loted a shoppg centre on the outskirts of Colorado Sprgs, was closed Q scrib self as an "adult-oriented gay and lbian nightclub hostg theme nights", wh events cludg karaoke, drag shows and DJ sets. On the week when the LGBT muny celebrated s fourth Gay Pri — four years after Stonewall — an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge at the French Quarter, killg 32 people on June 24, 1973.
On April 28, 1990 at Uncle Charlie's, another gay bar Greenwich Village Manhattan, three men were jured an explosn possibly ed by a pipe bomb. They said Nosair, a mlim, attacked the bar bee he objected to homosexualy on relig grounds acrdg to report om the New York Tim.
25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
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They then attacked Buice and two other iends wh nail-studd woon planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outsi Heaven, a gay bar the cy's heavily LGBT Montrose district.
PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege. * attacks on gay nightclubs *
“Like other humans sufferg om var disabili homosexuals should not attempt to fect the rt of society wh their particular illns. The blast happened at the by Admiral Dunn pub the center of London's very gay neighborhood at the start of a holiday weekend.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
CNN’s Randi Kaye looks back at past attacks on gay nightclubs around the untry. * attacks on gay nightclubs *
Peter Tatchell, spokman for the gay rights group OutRage!, said: “A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe felt able to relax and hold hands whout fear of attack. He asked the bartenr if he was at a gay bar, orred a uple of beers, and moved to the back of the bar, watchg a game of pool briefly before takg out a hatchet — a small ax the size of a hammer. Osvan Inác dos Santos was leavg a gay bar Arapira a small cy the Alagoas, Northeast of Brazil wh a group of iends, after he won a lol ‘Miss Gay' petn on Sept.
On April 11, 2009 Jt Goodw was attacked at a bar Gloucter, Massachetts by as many as five people, who were g anti-gay remarks.
A HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY NIGHTCLUBS
In ntrast to the Sochi Wter Olympics' multibilln-dollar splendor, dismay ns through Central Statn, Rsia's largt gay nightclub Mosw. * attacks on gay nightclubs *
In New York Cy, a man named Frerick Giunta was charged and arrted on October 17, 2010 for allegedly attackg and assltg people two bars Greenwich Village: Ty's Bar on Christopher Street and nearby Juli Bar on W 10th St hurlg anti-gay remarks. On October 25, 2011 a man sprayed 21-year-old Rsel Banks wh liquid fuel and threw a l match at him at the Rabow and Dove gay bar Leicter Cy, England.
HELL'S KCHEN GAY BARS REACT TO ATTACKS ON QUEER MEN
After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bartenrs. * attacks on gay nightclubs *
An unintified rmant told the FBI that, the numero nversatns after their first meetg, Masmari often exprsed a “distaste for homosexual people, ” and that Masmari “oped that homosexuals should be extermated. On April 8, 2016, an employee of a popular Wt Hollywood gay bar was attacked as he left the bar walkg towards his r on an apparent hate crime.
An associate of his "reported that Masmari nfid him that he "burned a gay club" and that he did bee 'what the people are dog is wrong, '" an assistant U.
RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS
Oslo’s annual Pri para was nceled on Saturday followg a adly shootg at a gay bar that Norwegian police are vtigatg as a possible terrorist attack. * attacks on gay nightclubs *
• March 1, 2009 – Brothers Lawrence Henry Lewis and Lawrneil Henry Lewis and their Alejandro Sam Gray hurled chunks of ncrete at patrons of a gay bar Galvton, Texas. 21, 1997 – Eric Rudolph sets off a nail-lan explosive vice at the Othersi Lounge, a nightclub Atlanta wh a mostly gay and lbian clientele. Rudolph, better known for targetg the 1996 Summer Olympics, said he was strikg back at a "morally rpt ernment" that allows abortn and homosexualy.
5 KILLED, 18 INJURED IN SHOOTG INSI GAY NIGHT CLUB IN US
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 * attacks on gay nightclubs *
•June 24, 1973 – An arsonist sets fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar New Orleans' French Quarter, killg 32 THE BLOODSHED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MASS KILLINGSEveryone was 'droppg and screamg': Wns scribe chaos Orlando shootgOrlando nightclub shootg: What we know.
OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
AdvertisementSKIP Thornell/Associated PrsJune 13, 2016The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny is no stranger to the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy that set off rts and helped touch off the morn gay-rights movement to the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard to near-epimic levels of vlence agast transgenr women, the muny has been marked by flash of the massacre at a gay club Orlando, Fla., that left 49 ad and 53 others jured, Richard Kim, the executive edor of The Natn, wrote on Sunday that gay bars and clubs have often been sanctuari.
And sometim those sanctuari have e unr are a few signifint Orleans, 1973Thirty-two people died when a fire swept through the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, on June 24, 1973. ViotranscripttranscriptA Day of Mourng for the Gay CommunyIn support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights movement. ”The New Orleans Tim-Piyune wrote 2013 that the lounge was “not jt any bar, but as a gay muny hangout where lols uld gather whout fear of social persecutn” at a time of tense anti-gay stigma.
He was sentenced to life prison Rudolph (who has a gay brother) said a statement durg his sentencg that he did not md homosexualy that remaed private. Gay, who told the police he was on a missn to kill gay people, said he was upset that his last name had ma him the target of anti-gay jok.
SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’
Seattle, 2014Mab Mohammed Masmari, 30, poured gasole on the stairs of a gay club and set alight shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve. More than 700 people were the club at the time, cludg much of the cy’s gay and transgenr learship, but no one was Masmari plead guilty to arson and was sentenced to 10 years prison July 2014.
Stonewall Inn, 2010 and 2016The Stonewall Inn played a central role the morn gay rights movement, but has also seen antigay and anti-transgenr vlence recent men attacked another man the rtroom 2010 after he rmed them that they were a gay bar.