I'm a Gay Army Officer—Queer Troops Mt Fight Back

Contents:

• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Details ntue to emerge about the gunman's motiveA gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, killg at least 49 people and jurg dozens before beg shot ad by police.

She told the FBI her hband said he was gog to see iends, though she thought he was gog to rry out an attack at the night club, officials have told the US are also media reports that she said she was wh him when he bought ammunn and a holster, and drove him to Pulse once to spe ptn, Jim Van Horn, Pulse nightclub ctomer: "He (Omar Mateen) was a homosexual and he was tryg to pick up men"Mateen appears to have been a regular at the club and he ntacted men on gay datg apps, raisg the possibily that he was nflicted about beg gay and lashed out. NEW YORK -- The gay, lbian and transgenr muny has seen vlence before, om Harvey Milk to Matthew Shepard, and an ever-lengtheng list of transgenr women. 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.

This "is a tragic illtratn of the legimate safety fears that those our LGBT muny live wh every day, " said Mike Rawlg, the mayor of Dallas, where extra police were assigned to a neighborhood that is a hub of the lol gay muny.

SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB

In a separate cint Sunday, a heavily armed man was arrted Southern California even as Mateen's attack was ongog, tellg police he was on his way to attack a gay pri Jam Wley, of Indiana, had asslt rifl, ammunn and chemils that uld be ed to make an explosive, acrdg to police, who said there was no evince of a nnectn to the Orlando massacre.

The hight profile of the clud the murr of Milk, a pneerg gay polician San Francis 1978, and the 1998 murr of Shepard, a gay llege stunt Wyomg at the hands of two men who beat him to a a while he was tied to a fence.

31, 2013, about 750 people were celebratg New Year's Eve at Neighbours, a popular gay nightclub Seattle, when Mab Masmari poured gasole on a rpeted stairway and set ablaze.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN

Robert Matenc, who works as a host at Neighbours, said the club rpond to the arson attack by addg extra secury guards durg large special events, and trag employe crowd 's attack stck a place that has long been thought of as a safe haven for the muny -- the gay nightclub.

"Nightclubs have always been sacred spac for queer people, plac to gather and glter away om the judgg glar of society, where we uld love and be loved for who we are and how we want to be, " wrote Pl Rshenbh, a clergyman and popular gay wrer, exprsg his heartbreak a lengthy, emotnal post on Facebook which he relled gog out dancg while at semary New many ci, vigils were planned at LGBT muny centers and other gatherg spots to memorate the victims New York Cy, LGBT people and their alli nverged on the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village spontaneo reactn to the shootg. The Manhattan bar beme a natnal symbol of gay rights after a 1969 police raid led to vlent street ont of the red brick faça, Cameron Cano stood proudly wh a rabow flag draped over her shoulrs. Stonewall is "where we go when thgs like this happen, " said Andy Humm, host of the "Gay USA" TV gay bars add secury measur, or nsired dog so the aftermath of the Orlando attack.

"At eagleBOLT, a gay bar Mneapolis, patrons watched big-screen TVs silence as Print Barack Obama nounced the Orlando shootg as an "act of terror. Wh that beg said, we’ve gathered the bt gay bars and nightclubs the US — om Seattle’s Pony to New York Cy’s Gym Sportsbar — that every person on the spectm n tly enjoy. Callg all gay sports fans and athlet: Gym Sportsbar New York Cy serv up the bt of both worlds for gay sports fans, allowg them a place to watch and discs their favore sports a queer-iendly environment.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Loted the heart of the Cy of Brotherly Love, Boxers is a gay sports bar that’s perfect to head to after a long day at work. ” Asi om beg a revolutnary gay bar Chigo’s Far North Si, Big Chicks is celebrated for s one-of-a-kd art hangg on nearly every rner of the tablishment, pictg proment divas large portras. Set New Orleans’ French Quarter, the Bourbon Pub Para is regularly regnized as one of the untry’s most prtig gay bars and a center for big and bold drag shows.

Jt wh the past two years, Mnota’s Tw Ci have bee a statn for the LGBTQ muny, drawg natnal attentn for beg one of the more gay-iendly Midwtern lotns on the map. In fact, for as long as LGBTQ people have been ngregatg their own social spac, the spac have been the target of vic homophobic and transphobic vlence.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS

Until the Pulse massacre, the most notor act of vlence agast a gay bar was the burng of the UpStairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar, 1973. In 1997, “Olympic Park Bomber” Eric Robert Rudolph bombed the Othersi Lounge, a lbian nightclub Atlanta, later explag that he believed “the ncerted effort to legimize the practice of homosexualy” was an “asslt upon the tegry of Amerin society.

” He scribed homosexualy as “an aberrant sexual behavr, ” and wrote that “when the attempt is ma” to “regnize this behavr as beg jt as legimate and normal as the natural man/woman relatnship, every effort should be ma, cludg force if necsary, to halt this effort.

” In his nfsn, Rudolph railed agast the “homosexual agenda, ” cludg “gay marriage, homosexual adoptn, hate-crime laws cludg gays, or the attempt to troduce a homosexual normalizg curriculum to our schools. Three years later, Ronald Gay opened fire on Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar Roanoke, Virgia, killg Danny Overstreet, 43, and severely jurg six others. ” More recently, 2013, Mab Mohammed Masmari set fire to Neighbours, a gay nightclub the Capol Hill area of Seattle, on New Year’s Eve.

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Over the past ne years, filmmaker Marc Pontello dug ep to the club’s story, explorg the role played Hoton’s gay rights movement the 1980s, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and s sometim shaky — but long-endurg — legacy as one of the cy’s most important cultural ins.

Numbers, which first opened 1978 as a gay dis, is one of the olst ntually operatg alternative clubs the Uned Stat.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Wren, who died 2014, origally operated the club as a dner theatre of sorts, later transformg to the gay dance club everyone now knows as Numbers.

For the film, Pontello pored over the Gulf Coast Archive and Mm of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr History, and spent hours readg issu of This Week Texas magaze, the cy’s now-funct gay alt-weekly.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.