Orlando Nightclub Shootg: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club

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• ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

Wh sorrow, anger and exprsns of uny, the LGBT muny across the world is mourng Sunday's adly attack on a gay nightclub Orlando. History, and jured 53 — stck durg Pri Month, which memorat the Stonewall Rts of 1969 and the gay rights movement more broadly. While thori have not nfirmed if the nightclub was targeted specifilly bee was a gay club, the attack has been keenly felt by the LGBT muny.

In Florida, the gay muny is "reelg, " Equaly Florida's policy and outreach ordator Hannah Willard told NPR.

Took open fire on a gay nightclub at maximum pacy, " she said.

"In the midst of our grief we are more eply rolved than ever to uproot homophobia and animosy towards gay and transgenr people, wherever exists. Brann Joyce holds a sign support of the shootg victims Orlando durg the gay pri para Wt Hollywood, Calif.

(Left) A man cri durg a vigil New York reactn to the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla. (Right) People embrace durg a vigil New York reactn to the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla.

(Bottom) People wave flags durg a vigil New York reactn to the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla. In New York, a massive vigil formed at the Stonewall Inn, the symbolic birthplace of the gay rights movement.

"The Manhattan bar beme a natnal symbol of gay rights after a 1969 police raid led to vlent street rts. "Stonewall is 'where we go when thgs like this happen, ' said Andy Humm, host of the 'Gay USA' TV show.

" "Gay bars and clubs are supposed to be our safe haven, " 48-year-old Milack-Carras, jog at the vigil, told the New York Tim.

It brgs back memori of when vlence was regular at gay bars. Gay Men's Chos also dited a performance to those affected by the attack. At Ellis, a member of Metropolan Communy Church, rri a cross wh a sign memory of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shootg as he march the 2016 Gay Pri Para on Sunday Philalphia.

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And as gay rights activists have known sce at least the mid-1900s, visibily equals safety. Yet homophobia and transphobia ntue to be a surge.

When gay men and women first celebrated Pri 1969, pped a weeklong rt at a gay club, Stonewall, New York Cy where patrons railed agast police who equently raid the Pri march 1984, joy acceptance and g out was tempered by thoughts of a myster new illns, AIDS, ravagg gay men.

Fally, last year, Pri seemed unmarred by anger or tragedy as the LGBT muny reveled a days-earlier Supreme Court lg that ensured marriage signat monument to gay rightsThis year, as lns of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people gather wh their supporters, fay and iends for massive Pri march ci like San Francis and New York, is wh the horror of a blood-soaked night wrought by a crazed gunman at Pulse, a gay Orlando nightclub, still h their mds. It’s a remr of battl yet to fight by a disparate, diverse muny om different generatns and experienc that mt une one more time rolve to eradite the hate that led to the them will be Anton Avanceña, 26, a gay Filipo man who, spe havg only e out to the majory of his fay the last two weeks, will brg his tradnal immigrant mother along to march bi him and his boyiend of two years, Patrick Cochrane, 28, at San Francis's Pri march on Avanceña, this personally joyo moment of his fay’s acceptance is darkened by his realizatn that there is far to go the natn’s journey to the same place. "We — an terracial gay uple — would not have been possible whout the people who started the Pri movement 40 and 50 years ago as a prott.

There is a lot of really irratnal hatred toward the gay muny. The Gay 90’s Mil (select dat Oct. 1-10), a mil revue, prented by Unseen Imag Theater partnership wh Orlando’s Come Out Wh Pri Celebratn, brgs memori of gay life for men and woman durg the ‘90s.

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Savoy Orlando, a lively, multi-roomed gay nightclub, featur dancers, billiards, an outdoor pat and is full of themed events for any mood, like Flashback Fridays and Mil Marti Mondays. The Men of SAVOY dancers perform nightly, makg this one of the area’s proment gay bars. ”The se was raid by police 1969, which rulted an uprisg that led to protts fightg discrimatn agast gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr ftivals brg out angst, rilienceRerd-breakg crowds New York watched more than 400 anizatns and thoands of dividuals participate  the 46th annual NYC Pri March.

As a printial ndidate 2008, Clton opposed same-sex marriage, supportg the civil unns stead, CNN two-e trek began at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue, but not before anizers paid tribute to the 49 people killed at Pulse, a gay Orlando nightclub, the worst mass shootg U. ”“For , celebratg Pri this year meant choosg between the threat of homophobic and transphobic vigilante vlence and the threat of police vlence, ” the group said a statement.

”After Orlando, Pri reviss s meangCooney said he me to the event Sunday to show that hate crim agast the gay muny would not make people stop livg their liv.

Although the Pri events have been cricized for growg too mercialized, Nardikian said Pri had an extra sense of purpose this year: “I thk ’s time to be as gay as possible and have people jt stick together.