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• PULSE GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG ORLANDO: THE ADLIT US HISTORY
• ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• WDOWS SHOT OUT AT ORLANDO GAY BAR
• FLORIDA PULSE GAY CLUB ATTACKED ORLANDO - AT LEAST 20 AD
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG; ATTACK IS WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• LIVE BLOG: MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS WORST HISTORY
• PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB
• SHOOTG VICTIMS ORLANDO GAY CLUB RRIED OM THE SCENE (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

PULSE GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG ORLANDO: THE ADLIT US HISTORY

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. Ameri is a haven for gay immigrants like me. Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando, was turned to the FBI by a man who attend his mosque.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

In a movg, tearful speech, Utah's litenant ernor apologized for past homophobia. "I’m here bee those 49 people were gay. Omar Mateen, a rint of Fort Pierce, Fla., a cy about 120 om Orlando, parked his van outsi Pulse, a gay nightclub.

— A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another. 11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry.

Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para. Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.

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

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”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.

Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.

WDOWS SHOT OUT AT ORLANDO GAY BAR

Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.

FLORIDA PULSE GAY CLUB ATTACKED ORLANDO - AT LEAST 20 AD

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A gunman opened fire on a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., early Sunday morng, killg at least 50 people the adlit mass shootg recent U. Police said they have not nfirmed whether Pulse was targeted specifilly bee is a gay nightclub. Authori said is not clear whether Pulse Orlando was targeted specifilly bee is a gay nightclub.

Media ptn, Eyewns Anthony Torr fled the scene and filmed as he watched people shootg "back and forth"At least 20 people have been killed and some 42 jured a shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, police say. "Some of the jured were reportedly brought to the Orlando Regnal Medil Center police source, APImage ptn, SWAT officers were at the scene of the shootgImage source, Orlando PoliceMore than 100 people were reported to have been enjoyg the end of a Lat-themed night the club, which lls self the hottt gay bar the cy, when the attack began.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

Fred Ramirez, Try Ramirez, Tim Bat, and Malissa Ramirez grieve near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL

– A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were “heroic” and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg “sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, makg him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and men’s profsnal sports the Uned Stat.

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG; ATTACK IS WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

RAIDERS' CARL NASSIB ON COMING OUT GAY: ‘I DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WOULD RUIN MY CAREER' "It wasn’t until recently — and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner — that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story, " Maxen explaed. In the NFL, Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive leman Carl Nassib beme the league’s first openly gay active player when he ma his announcement 2021 while playg for the Las Vegas Rairs.

LIVE BLOG: MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS WORST HISTORY

San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers was the first woman and openly gay ach a Super Bowl 2020.

”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. A gunman opened fire si a gay nightclub early Sunday (June 12), killg 50 people and jurg 53  the worst mass shootg US history. MIAMI (AFP, REUTERS) - A state of emergency has been clared Florida after a gunman opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub Orlando early Sunday (June 12), killg 50 people and jurg 53 the worst mass shootg US history.

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

The father of the spected gunman said on Sunday he believed his son was motivated by hatred of gays - not by his Mlim relign. He said his son, Omar Mateen, recently lashed out his prence after wnsg a gay uple embracg downtown Miami, and suggted the cint may have triggered the atrocy.

SHOOTG VICTIMS ORLANDO GAY CLUB RRIED OM THE SCENE (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

The club advertis self onle as "Orlando's hottt gay bar. A gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, markg the adlit mass shootg U.

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. 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 (13.

— 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. NEW YORK -- The gay, lbian and transgenr muny has seen vlence before, om Harvey Milk to Matthew Shepard, and an ever-lengtheng list of transgenr women. 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.