Pulse is not alone: A brief history of attacks on gay clubs

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25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

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. * gay bar shootings list *

A police officer ss their vehicle while rpondg to a mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U. - ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot ad by police. Photo cred: globalgayz/facebook.

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. He said he believed gay men were agents of the vil, stalkg him and ”tryg to steal my soul jt by lookg at me. ” His father, a mister, said his ttimony that Cmpley maybe had a ”a homosexual problem himself.

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. Buice and ne of his iends tried go to several bars a gay area of Montrose, but they were refed entry.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. * gay bar shootings list *

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.

“Homosexualy is an aberrant sexual behavr, ” he wrote a statement. “Like other humans sufferg om var disabili homosexuals should not attempt to fect the rt of society wh their particular illns.

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Two people were killed and 81 were jured after a bomb explod a gay bar London's Soho, on April 30, 1999.

The blast happened at the by Admiral Dunn pub the center of London's very gay neighborhood at the start of a holiday weekend. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

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 * gay bar shootings list *

22, 2000, a man lled Ronald Gay asked directns to a gay bar so he uld “shoot some people.

Gay told police he didn't like beg lled Gay. He also said  was his missn to make all gays move to San Francis, which he thought would end AIDS.

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. At the San Diego Gay Pri ftival July 30, 2006, six men were attacked wh baseball bats and kniv after leavg the Pri ftival. The attackers ed anti-gay slurs as they beat the victims.

ORLANDO MASSACRE: NAM OF GAY BAR SHOOTG VICTIMS EMERGE

One was a homebody and stunt who'd recently e out to his fay. Another was a cheery pharmacy technician. Another promoted a gay cise le. * gay bar shootings list *

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. Tedy Marqu, print of the Alagoas Gay Group, said that “Homophobia is one of the worst problems Brazil fac.

It is unacceptable that every other day our untry a homosexual is btally murred. He said he wanted to shake Neve's hand bee he had never shaken a gay man's hand before, but Neve refed. One of the three spects later told police their tent was to target homosexuals, said Galvton Police Department Lt.

PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS

The 49 people killed a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida have been honored Orlando and around the world on the fifth anniversary of the attack. * gay bar shootings list *

The tr also hurled homophobic sults, thori said. 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.

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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

Acrdg to NYPD officials, Giunta has a history of mtg crim by targetg men at gay bars.

The spects reportedly told the man, “We don't like gay bars, and we don't piss next to faggots” before the asslt began. “I'm not gog to say sorry, bee I don't know what I should be sorry for, ” said Francis, who also sisted he's not a homophobe.

“I don't hate gay people. 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.

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