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Contents:

• PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
• PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
• FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
• PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI

PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI

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PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS

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FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB

As iends and fay of the victims trawled for answers, they were met by more homophobia and hate—a reason gay clubs such as Pulse are still important to the LGBT muny.

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PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI

— Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot -wi mural, the rgg of church bells and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said. While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said.

A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter. She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS.

Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando. History stole 49 liv there and srred untls others; a year sce Pulse, a safe space for Orlando’s gay muny, fundamentally changed. But when John and Poma were teens, he tght her about his vibrant, unrground world of nightclubs for the gay muny, where everyone felt ee and 2004, as a way to rry on his spir, Poma cid to open a nightclub that remd her of John.

She wanted her space to be loud and vibrant, “an atmosphere that embraced the gay liftyle, ” as The Washgton Post has wouldn’t be “jt another gay club, ” Poma said. And would bear a special name: Pulse, for John’s beatg 12 years, the club grew to an tegral space for the gay muny, one shattered wh a matter of mut by a madman wh a gun.

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. ORLANDO (AP) -- Across Central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot-wi mural, the rgg of church bells and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.

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