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Contents:
- MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
- WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.
- ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- ORLANDO SHOOTER’S CLASSMATE: HE WAS GAY
- WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
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" * orlando shooter was gay *
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.
WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.
At least half a dozen men claim to have seen Omar Mateen at gay clubs or enuntered him onle, but vtigators have not found any pennt rroboratn. * orlando shooter was gay *
"He hate gay Puerto Rins for all the stuff he did to him, " Miguel said.
ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?
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. * orlando shooter was gay *
"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. Gay, trans, bisexual...
Addnally, other media outlets have heard several stori of Mateen poppg up and nversg wh men on gay datg Van Horn, 71, said Mateen was a "regular" at the popular Pulse Horn, a retired pharmacist, said he met Mateen once, and the younger man talked about his ex-wife. Asked about his son's sexual orientatn last week, Seddique Mir Mateen said he did not believe his son was gay. "This to me suggts somebody that may have had sexual inty issu and may have actually been stgglg wh the ia that he himself was gay and that would add a different motive and a different perspective on the se, " O'Toole said.
So he equented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studd drag shows and bachata-sountracked “Lat Nights.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
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 * orlando shooter was gay *
“What happened at Pulse was … kd of labeled as a gay issue, when realy wasn’t. But before “Pulse” me to mean “one of the adlit mass shootgs US history, one that primarily targeted people of lor at a gay nightclub, ” Pulse was synonymo wh home. One man, so many Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday — leavg 49 people ad and dozens jured.
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ORLANDO SHOOTER’S CLASSMATE: HE WAS GAY
Mateen, who had lled 911 pledgg allegiance to the Islamic State, was also a closeted gay man nsumed by feelgs of self-loathg and revenge. Mateen or thk they saw him at gay bars. But so far, they have not found any pennt rroboratn — through his web search, emails or other electronic data — to tablish that he was, fact, gay, officials qutn of sexual orientatn is a part of a broar effort by the F.
Mateen uld have been gay was his ex-wife, Sora Yufiy, who, a day after the massacre, told The New York Tim that her former hband often ma angry ments about homosexualy. “In Islam, ’s te that there is very low tolerance for homosexualy. Mateen for about a year on Jack’d, a gay chat and datg Camacho, the chief executive of Jack’d, said the pany was operatg wh the F.
WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
Mateen had profil on at least three gay datg apps.
He said they first met at another gay club Orlando, the Parliament Hoe, and had more than a dozen renzvo at an area told the work that Mr. Mateen felt rejected by Hispanic gays and was angry at Puerto Rins particular, bee he once had a sexual liaison wh a man who later nfsed to beg H. Mateen had been gay, might open a nversatn about homophobia Mlim and other relig hoeholds where homosexualy is sometim not accepted.
“Maybe this would help open up ey all religns, ” he Jul Serrano, a gay activist Puerto Ri, said he was worried that Univisn’s terview sought to dismiss the killgs as a “personal quarrel. Follows Claims That Orlando Gunman Was Gay.