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A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots.

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TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO

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For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTWO PEOPLE were killed and81 jured, 13 of them serly, when a bomb explod last night a crowd gay bar Soho, central London. 37pm whout warng, vastated the Admiral Dunn pub Old Compton Street, the pal's gay centre. Ten mut before the blast police had rdoned off a phone box nearby Shaftbury Avenue, although was not knownwhether this was lked to the explosn shocked the gay muny and ethnic mori, g ls than a week after last Saturday's blast Brick Lane London's East End and the prev week's nail-bomb attack on Brixton market, which jured 39.

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" The Commissner said that recent days, anticipatg a possible explosn the strongly gay area of Soho, crime preventn officers had vised a number of pubs and bars to offer advice on secury. There were also many walkg jured were taken to four London hospals: Universy College, St Thomas', The Royal London and Guy' bombg was greeted wh anger by the gay muny, which had been bracg self for such an attack.

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A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. * bombing gay pub *

Angela Mason, director of the gay prsure group Stonewall, lled on the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, to brg emergency powers to curb far-right Straw said: "This is a terrible outrage mted by people wh no humany. " He add: "We are alg wh people who have warped mds, right-wg extremists who are obvly racist and homophobic.

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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. * bombing gay pub *

"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. 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.

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”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.

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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. The gunman, Ronald Edward Gay, 53, opened fire when he saw two men the bar hug each other.

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READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.PATRICK GALEXANDRIA, VA159 NTRIBUTNS0JULY ADVENTUREJUL 2018NICE BAR TO VIS EHER LATE AFTERNOON OR LATE AT NIGHT. BARTENRS ARE NICE AND VERY ACODATG. EASY TO GET TO THE BAR BY FOOT OR TRAMREAD MOREWRTEN JULY 18, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.HM A3 OCT 2017I LOVE THIS PLACE TO TRAVEL, I AM PLANG TO VIS THIS AREA AGA. ULD YOU PLEASE UPLOAD SOME IMAGE? READ MOREWRTEN APRIL 19, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.DHEARDZIMAMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS152 NTRIBUTNS0GREAT GAY BAR AMSTERDAMJUN 2017 • SOLODONT UNRSTAND HOW ANYONE N GIVE THIS PLACE A BAD REVIEW! 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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. 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. “The realy is, if people are lookg to perpetrate anti-gay bias and vlence, there are very few plac this world that are safe once that tent has formed, ” Sharon Stapel, the former executive director of the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, said at the time of the March this year, a transgenr woman said she was sexually asslted the unisex rtroom.

The Arch Cafe was so well known to thori that was scribed the Sprgfield Unn as “long acknowledged as a gatherg place for homosexuals the Connecticut Valley and beyond. Follow-up by police revealed that other bars wh homosexual crowds had not been receivg such lls durg this perd.

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Pursug the ia that the Café might have been liberately targeted bee of s homosexual clientele, a Sprgfield Unn reporter Jam Shanks terviewed Robert Dow of the Homophile Unn of Boston. He add, “A number of church sympathetic to homosexuals and gay church San Francis, Los Angel, and New York have been stroyed or damaged by fire bombgs. The number of crank lls agast gays creased alarmgly the last month.

The ia of targetg “homosexuals” was not at all unlikely. A page three article the June 26 Sprgfield Unn prted parts of an Associated Prs story om New Orleans about an arson fire at a “gay” bar which twenty-ne people burned to ath, wh another sixteen jured as they jumped om upper floor wdows and a fire pe. I have heard enough mors of mafia ntrol of gay bars and protectn rackets other ci to fd that to be a plsible theory about what was happeng Sprgfield at the time.

FURTHER READING: For more on the Maffia gay bar nnectn natnally see this blog by Jt Casc SOURCES:. __”Survivor Says Arsonist Torched ‘Gay’ Bar. All three nail bombs were the work of nfsed racist and homophobe David Copeland, who was 22 at the time.

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The next attack, which jured 13, was Brick Lane, where many Banglashi lived, the followg Saturday on 24 fal attack was on an LGBT-iendly pub on one of the most famo streets among the gay muny. ”He ntued: “What was shockg to me, as a gay man, is that I was on the same list as the black muny Brixton and the Banglashi muny Brick Lane.

“For people g to London the 90s, their entry pot to livg their life as an out gay man, or bisexual or lbian, was Soho, and pecially the old style tradnal pubs like the Old Compton and the Admiral Dunn. ”Back at a iend’s hoe after fleeg the scene, Carter vividly remembers fdg out had been a nail bomb and the target was a gay says: “I was horrified. I had experienced homophobia before, verbal ments, but thankfully at the time nothg physil.

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People makg ments like ‘he was Soho’ and worse ‘he’s that gay one that was at the bombg’. “I was still procsg what beg gay meant to me, I knew I was gay and was as fortable as I uld be wh that to myself but I wasn’t really ready for the world to know yet. 23, 1997See the article s origal ntext om Febary 23, 1997, Sectn 1, Page 18Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the fourth such cint seven months, a bomb explod Atlanta on Friday night, this one jurg at least five people at a gay nightclub and pellg law-enforcement officials to explore whether a serial bomber is at police vtigated the bombg at the Othersi Lounge, they found a backpack ntag a send bomb the club's parkg lot.

Were much more ut on the nightclub, which primarily serv gay men and lbians, is on Piedmont Road, a by thoroughfare northeast Atlanta that was blocked off today as the police searched for shrapnel and other Spadafore said that at least 100 people had been the club at the time of the explosn and that another bar across the street, the Hot Spot, had also been crowd. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 18 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: In Latt Atlanta Bombg, 5 Are Injured at a Gay Bar. Uncle Charlie’s, which opened 1980 at 56 Greenwich Avenue and closed September 1997, was one of the cy’s most popular gay vio bars and one of the first to appeal to gay men of the MTV generatn.

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Bellamy-Walker</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">A bar servg LGBTQ New Yorkers has closed after an arson attack over the weekend, the New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Wednday. </p><p class="">At approximately 9 p.m. on Sunday, a man walked to the Rash Bar Brooklyn’s Bhwick neighborhood wh a bottle of flammable liquid, poured on the bar’s floor, l a match and set the venue ablaze, acrdg to the NYPD. Police said the spect fled as the bar beme engulfed flam.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Jake Sillen, one of the bar’s owners, told NBC News on Wednday that they are still shock. </p><p class="">“It’s so hard to believe and procs,” said Sillen, 26, who is nonbary and they/them pronouns. “It’s more nfg than anythg.” </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_small__5hUB_ styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="The Rash Bar Brooklyn’s Bhwick neighborhood." height="1080" width="718"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">The Rash Bar Brooklyn’s Bhwick neighborhood.</span><span class="ptn__source">Rash Bar / via NBC New York</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Three people — a bartenr, DJ and secury guard — were si when the venue was set on fire. A 25-year-old female was transported to nearby Wyckoff Heights Medil Center wh mor burns, while another victim was evaluated on the scene for mor burns to the shoulrs, the NYPD said. </p><p class="">Claire Bender, a -owner of Rash, had jt stepped outsi when the fire broke out. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“Everyone shed out,” <a href=">Bender told NBC New York</a>. “The si door has a glass ont, and I looked over and saw flam to the top of ceilg. It was crazy, happened so fast.”</p><p class="">The bar was left unregnizable and torched, NBC New York reported.</p><p class="">Bender, who they/them pronouns, said the spect boldly left behd evince. </p><p class="">“He left the gas nister si. Kd of lmly placed on the bar unter. Wasn’t knocked over or anythg,” they told NBC New York. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Police are reviewg surveillance footage that shows someone fillg up a gas n mut before the fire.</p><h2 class=""><strong>'Easy target'</strong></h2><p class="">Police are still vtigatg a motive for the cint, and no arrts have been ma. The bar’s owner cled to ment on the spect’s tentns but noted that servg a large LGBTQ clientele mak the space vulnerable. </p><p class="">“I don’t want to jump to any nclns, bee we don’t know anythg about the person that did this,” Sillen said. “It uld easily turn out to be a motive that we aren’t expectg.” </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">“It’s easy to see why our space would be an easy target for someone lookg to do harm to the queer muny,” they said, addg that Rash Bar, “people feel safe to be themselv, and ’s a shame that anybody would do anythg to threaten this.” </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Sce the bar opened nearly five months ago, has bee a staple LGBTQ nightlife and a refuge for queer young adults and performers. It is also known for beg packed late to the night, acrdg to NBC New York.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">This is not the only reported cint<strong> </strong>targetg bars or near the Bhwick neighborhood that are popular wh the cy’s LGBTQ muny: In Febary, someone threw a<a href="> pepper-bomb spray on the dance floor</a> at a party for the Black queer muny at Nowadays, and last summer there was a wave of attacks at <a href=">Happyfun Hiaway.</a> </p><p class="">“We, fely the last year, have seen a rise anti-LGBT vlence,” Sillen said, notg that more people are takg rs to and om parti. “The streets haven’t been as safe as they were three or four years ago.”</p><p class="">As of Wednday afternoon, the bar owners <a href=">had raised $52,000 of their $200,000 goal on GoFundMe</a> to help renstct the damaged buildg and re for the jured employe. Sillen said they are thankful for the outpourg of support. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“What we’re dog is important, and no matter what, we will be reopeng,” Sillen said. “We’ve never once thought about that not beg a possibily.” </p><p class="">Sillen, who is still on edge after the fire, said they have a msage for the arsonist. </p><p class="">“Turn yourself ,” Sillen said. “You’ve harmed so many people. 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