The attack on a gay club Orlando on Sunday is not an isolated crime.
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Even before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were already the most likely targets of hate crim Ameri, acrdg to an analysis of data llected by the Feral Bure of Invtigatn.
Senator Mch McConnell of Kentucky, the majory lear, has omted any mentn of gays when talkg about the massacre, and Reprentative Pete Ssns of Texas has said the se of the shootg was not a gay club. And the nightclub, Pulse, on s Twter acunt, billed self as “Orlando’s premier gay ultra lounge, nightclub and bar. People might have to do wh a more acceptg attu toward gays and lbians recent s, say people who study hate crim.
Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is an expert on anti-gay vlence. Last summer, ls than two months after the Uned Stat Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriage, a New York Cy man was arrted and charged wh a hate crime for attackg Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, the first gay uple to be married at Wt Pot Milary Amy. A few months later Palm Sprgs, Calif., a gay married uple, Gee and Chris Zanr, who were also L.