Pulse - Gay Bar

Contents:

• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
• PULSE IS MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY BAR': THE STORY BEHD THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB THAT BEME THE SE OF AMERI'S LATT MASS SHOOTG
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• SCENE OF MASS SHOOTG MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB'

50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.

THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED

Gay nightclub. - A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday 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.

A pair embrace after exg Parliament Hoe, a gay bar and rort where people were gatherg on June 12, 2016, the wake of the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida. One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, shootg occurred on the venue's Lat Night, and many of those killed were gunman was killed by police after a three-hour standoff, while people trapped si sperately lled and msaged iends and was the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat until one year later, when 58 people were murred at a Las Vegas untry mic ncert. But this week, the cy is also memorializg a years ago today, a gunman opened fire Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando, killg 49 people and woundg more than 50.

Senate unanimoly passed legislatn signatg the se of the gay club a natnal Hoe passed s versn of the bill May 12. Ron DeSantis signed a new state budget that cut fundg for Orlando’s LGBTQ Communy Center and an anizatn that ho homels LGBTQ, now media relatns manager for Equaly Florida, said the cuts meant DeSantis “has clared war” on the state’s gay muny. Des worth of artists and performers of all strip (lol, natnal, gay, straight) lled the club home.

PULSE IS MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY BAR': THE STORY BEHD THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB THAT BEME THE SE OF AMERI'S LATT MASS SHOOTG

Rabow flags have hung om lampposts along Orange Avenue sce 1998 durg Natnal Gay Pri Month. “The cy ernment has been very fond of the gay muny, ” says Man.

The environment is cidly pro-gay. Other iends I’ve rennected wh followg the shootg remd me that a lot of venu where our own bands played or where we saw Fugazi, Portishead, Weezer and other groups were gay clubs the rt of the week.

It remds me of my first time gog to a gay bar and feelg like I was safe, bee I was at the gay bar. Ray Rivera, aka DJ Infe, who was spng on the pat of Pulse when the shootg broke out, has said he’ll ntue to play clubs Orlando — gay, straight, whatever.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

“I n’t tell you how many stori I have read that have told me that Pulse was the first gay bar they ever went to, how they were shakg fear, how they weren’t out to their fai and how Pulse weled them, ” she says.

SCENE OF MASS SHOOTG MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB'

Correctn append, June 15 If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to sow terror the LGBT muny, he uldn’t have chosen a more apt target.

But the tail of havg happened not jt to gay people (by a gunman whose father has spoken out about his son’s dislike of gay men) but at a gay bar cuts to the very heart of a margalized group’s fears. For s, gay bars have functned not merely as waterg hol but as gatherg plac and facto muny centers.

Sunday morng’s attack didn’t jt cut short dozens of liv; also tore a hole the very agile sense of secury for gay people Ameri.