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In an terview wh Univisn, a man claims he first met Omar Mateen on the gay datg app Grdr, says they were "iends wh benefs"

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MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT

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It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime. In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by.

A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn. ” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women. The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg.

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One man, so many Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday — leavg 49 people ad and dozens jured. ORLANDO -- A man who says he was Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's gay lover is speakg out followg the attack on Pulse nightclub that left 49 people ad, and dozens more an terview wh Univisn anchor Maria Elena Salas, the man -- who was lled "Miguel" to protect his inty -- said he first met Mateen on the gay datg app Grdr.

Miguel said an terview wh Univisn that Mateen, who was killed by police durg the rampage on the Pulse nightclub early on June 12, was gay.

"He hate gay Puerto Rins for all the stuff he did to him, " Miguel said. "Miguel said that Mateen's wife knew he was gay, and that his father forced him to an arranged add that he and Mateen also talked about relign. Gay, trans, bisexual...

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Addnally, other media outlets have heard several stori of Mateen poppg up and nversg wh men on gay datg Van Horn, 71, said Mateen was a "regular" at the popular Pulse Horn, a retired pharmacist, said he met Mateen once, and the younger man talked about his ex-wife. Asked about his son's sexual orientatn last week, Seddique Mir Mateen said he did not believe his son was gay.

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"This to me suggts somebody that may have had sexual inty issu and may have actually been stgglg wh the ia that he himself was gay and that would add a different motive and a different perspective on the se, " O'Toole said. So he equented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studd drag shows and bachata-sountracked “Lat Nights.

“What happened at Pulse was … kd of labeled as a gay issue, when realy wasn’t. But before “Pulse” me to mean “one of the adlit mass shootgs US history, one that primarily targeted people of lor at a gay nightclub, ” Pulse was synonymo wh home. But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.

I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. The shootg Sce s openg 2004, Orlando’s Pulse dance club had tablished self as one of central Florida’s most vibrant centr for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social life. The FBI has found no evince so far that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people and wound more than 53 at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, chose the popular tablishment bee of s gay clientele, U.

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“While there n be no nyg the signifint impact on the gay muny, the vtigatn hasn’t revealed that he targeted Pulse bee was a gay club, ” a U. The shootg rattled the gay muny, which felt sgled out by Mateen. Officials said there is no evince th far that Mateen, 29, was gay or that his attack was motivated by who knew Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen scribe him as a man who had many mons and potentially led a double life.

(Vio: Er Patrick O'Connor, Jayne Orenste, Thomas LeGro/The Washgton Post, Photo: Associated Prs/The Washgton Post)The asssment is based on terviews and an examatn of his puter and other electronic the attack, speculatn surfaced that Mateen was gay as people me forward to say they had seen him at the club prevly and had ntact wh him on gay datg apps. One man told the Spanish-language televisn work Univisn that he had slept wh Mateen’s first wife, Sora Yufiy, raised the possibily that Mateen was possibly gay but nced was a spicn and nothg more.

His current wife did not thk he was gay, acrdg to a person faiar wh the FBI, however, has been unable to verify that Mateen ed gay datg apps and stead has found evince that Mateen was cheatg on his wife wh other women. They also add he did not make gay slurs durg the shootg spree si the club, based on a 911 ll, Mateen pledged allegiance to the lear of the Islamic State and did not make any homophobic ments. Comey has said Mateen was radilized and had prevly been the target of a terrorism, some mata they had ntact wh Mateen on two gay datg apps, Grdr and Jack’d, and stand by their origal Orlando posted vio and pictur om the area surroundg Pulse nightclub where a gunman opened fire and killed approximately 20 people.

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