After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bartenrs.
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- NIGHTCLUB SECURY PLAN SAN FRANCIS GAY PRI
- GAY BARS SEE CREASED SECURY, CTOMERS ACROSS USA ONE WEEK AFTER ORLANDO
- GAY PORTLAND NIGHTCLUBS, VENU TALK SECURY AS PRI BEGS
- GAY MAN SAYS SECURY GUARDS SAVAGELY BEAT HIM AT POPULAR NIGHTCLUB
- WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR NSIRG ARMED GUARDS AFTER ORLANDO SHOOTG
- STORMY DANIELS’ ENTOURAGE ACCED OF ABHORRENT BEHAVR AT INIC GAY NIGHTCLUB
- FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
NIGHTCLUB SECURY PLAN SAN FRANCIS GAY PRI
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REUTERS/Kev Mohatt/File PhotoNEW YORK, Nov 23 (Rters) - After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bars and other LGBT spac around the untry are aga weighg how to keep their staff and patrons safe after a gunman killed five people and jured 17 more at an LGBT club Colorado Sprgs.
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GAY BARS SEE CREASED SECURY, CTOMERS ACROSS USA ONE WEEK AFTER ORLANDO
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GAY PORTLAND NIGHTCLUBS, VENU TALK SECURY AS PRI BEGS
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GAY MAN SAYS SECURY GUARDS SAVAGELY BEAT HIM AT POPULAR NIGHTCLUB
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WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR NSIRG ARMED GUARDS AFTER ORLANDO SHOOTG
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“I’m not gog to fall prey to them, ” says the 59-year-old bar owner of Larry’s Lounge as to why he will not hire secury followg the killg of 50 people at a gay nightclub Florida. Gay bar will functn normally Sunday night, whout pat-downs or metal tectors.
STORMY DANIELS’ ENTOURAGE ACCED OF ABHORRENT BEHAVR AT INIC GAY NIGHTCLUB
“I’ve already been through a lot of anti-gay life, ” said Robson, who is gay. ” Robson sums up the feelgs of some gay bar owners.
“Gay bars were the only place where gay people uld be wh other gay people a safe space, ” said Art Johnston, the 72-year-old owner of Sitrack, a Chigo, Illois gay bar known for s showtun and LGBT activism. ” Read More: The Gay Bar as Safe Space Has Been Shattered But some bar managers are changg polici, if only slightly, the wake of Orlando.
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FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
MillerGay bars and nightclubs across the USA creased secury over the weekend, one week after the horrific shootgs at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, but attendance remaed high solidary. “It showed that we’re not gog to live fear, " said Randy Long, owner of Boyztown, a Denver gay bar.
"We’ve had to keep fightg for a lot the gay muny. The gay bar is across the street om the historic Stonewall Inn, se of rts 1969 that sparked the gay rights movement the USA.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
“We’re jt tryg to stay posive and not let the fear take over, ” said Rodrigo Dasilva, manager of the 700 Club New Orleans changed s name to Pulse for the weekend, as did other gay bars the cy.
Employee Lawrence Shepherd said the 700 Club did not take extra secury measur, but the cy's weekend pri ftivi brought many new ctomers to the neighborhood gay bar where workers generally know the patrons. "Brad Bayof, general manager of Sitrack Chigo, said gay bars have always been more aware of secury ncerns pared wh other bars. Many gay pri events this weekend around the untry paid homage to the Orlando said bar-goers remembered the Orlando tragedy var ways over the weekend: donatg money, wrg words of support on murals around the bar or huggg their favore bars have always served as safe spac for the LGBT muny, Bayof said, so stayg open durg tryg tim remas important.
“For s, gay bars were the muny centers for the gay muny, ” he said. A 21-year-old gay man says he was attacked over the weekend by the bouncers at the Manchter, England, gay nightclub Gordon said that while he was at the club the secury staff jumped him. "I didn't ever thk I would go to my home town Manchter where I spend a lot of weekends enjoyg myself to be beaten up by bouncers, a well-known gay bar, " he nightclub where the alleged cint happened posted a statement on Facebook on Monday.