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.
Contents:
- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
- SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
- BILLY JACK GAHER WAS SAVAGELY MURRED 1999 BEE HE WAS GAY ALABAMA
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
Sarah Gay is gog to prison for 10 years after LaQuenta Holey and Andrew Griff were killed a wrong-way crash on the North Freeway 2021. * who killed the gay *
”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. Solis wasn’t there but said people who were told her a man began harassg one of Smh’s iends and tossed homophobic slurs, acrdg to The Oregonian. The horrific killg of Matthew Shepard 1998 is wily seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crim Amerin history.
They pistol whipped him wh a gun then tied him to a fence eezg ndns and set fire to him before leavg him to attack beme a e célèbre: precipated a natnal backlash agast hyper-macho culture and tac tolerance of homophobia.
COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
The man spected of killg five people and jurg others at Club Q, a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, is facg murr and hate crime charg. * who killed the gay *
As a rult of Matthew’s ath, many good thgs have happened for the gay muny. Policians and celebri pledged support and fundg to bat anti-gay hate crime. The Shepard fay have bee mpaigners for gay rights.
Jimenez has been acced of beg a revisnist, a cricism ually rerved for extreme rightwg iologu that ny the Holot, and labelled a homophobe.
When he started he was nvced that Matthew died at the hands of homophob, but he soon disvered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * who killed the gay *
“This do not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, ” says Jimenez. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who beme a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement Ameri.
But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edg, some more ndown than the eveng of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Firi bar, a lol hangout that was purportedly gay-iendly. It was fairly well known the Laramie muny that McKney wouldn’t be one that was strikg out of a sense of homophobia.
They ntacted the Associated Prs and a number of lol gay anisatns that same day. Stephen Jimenez is an award-wng journalist and gay man.
WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
* who killed the gay *
So why has he put such time and effort to attemptg to prove that Matthew’s murr was not a hate crime, pecially as has seen him acced of beg an ally to the rightwg Christian fundamentalists who ny the realy of homophobia? “The view was that homophobic rednecks walked to a bar and saw an obvly gay man wh money and targeted him and beat him to ath for that reason, ” says Jimenez.
SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
That plit the origal story of two strangers walkg to a bar and targetg Matthew – someone they did not know – bee he was gay.
“Rsell Henrson ed to hang around wh gay people, ” Johnson told me.
“Laramie had a big gay populatn. I knew what people’s sexual orientatn was bee my bt iend’s son was gay.
BILLY JACK GAHER WAS SAVAGELY MURRED 1999 BEE HE WAS GAY ALABAMA
”The police did not vtigate the killers’ relatnship to the gay days after the attack, on 12 October, Matthew died.