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"
Contents:
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
- MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- ORLANDO GUNMAN HAD ED GAY DATG APP AND VISED LGBT NIGHTCLUB ON OTHER OCSNS, WNS SAY
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
The man who killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub Orlando was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, classmat, iends and club employe told ABC News. * pulse nightclub shooter gay *
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. One man, so many Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday — leavg 49 people ad and dozens jured.
WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
* pulse nightclub shooter gay *
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 man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Omar Mateen, was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, club employe, acquatanc and former classmat told ABC News.
MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
”FBI agents are hearg acunts of Omar Mateen’s prence at gay clubs gog back years. A former classmate at a police amy — who requted he not be intified — told ABC News that Mateen hung out wh him and others, equentg Florida gay bars while they were at the Indian River State College trag program, as far back as night, he said, Mateen asked him if he was gay.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Employe and patrons at Pulse told ABC News that Mateen went to the bar on a regular Callen, a performer at the club, said Mateen “didn’t seem homophobic to me. Another Florida man, Kev Wt, told ABC News’ Hoton affiliate, KTRK, that he was ntacted by Mateen on a gay datg app. What clubs are poppg and thgs of that sort and what are good plac to go, ” Wt purported behavr appears severely at odds wh how Mateen said he felt about gay people, acrdg to his ex-wife, Sora Yufiy, who was married to Mateen briefly 2009.
He would exprs his anger towards [a] certa culture, homosexualy, bee ... Islamic culture, is really not tolerated, homosexualy, and I know at the time he was tryg to get his life straight and follow his fah. I gus that created some nfn between that, and there was fely moments that he would exprs his tolerance to homosexuals, ” she said Yufiy said Mateen had told her that he ed to go out to night clubs “a lot, ” but never said they were gay clubs.
ORLANDO GUNMAN HAD ED GAY DATG APP AND VISED LGBT NIGHTCLUB ON OTHER OCSNS, WNS SAY
“Do I thk he was gay?... ”Cas which reprsed homosexualy has been lked to extremism have been an tert for unterterrorism officials. Or do have to do wh the nflicted feelgs about homosexualy?
One n be, on the one hand, fightg agast the perhaps ner attractn of homosexualy and at the same time honorg the act by sayg he was a radil Islamist. 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.