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. Many worry that physil secury measur n only go so far, and that stnchg a surge of flammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric is a better Club Q attack, which is beg vtigated as a hate crime, has pound the fear and anger of a muny already nontg a wave of Republin legislatn directed at transgenr youth and gay Amerins, and what they say is a related rise threats and vlence agast s members. "It's really tirg for the gay muny that time and time aga we have to e up wh the solutns for problems that other people make, " said Jonathan Hat, executive director of Drag Queen Story Hour, a nonprof group that aniz drag performers readg books to children 45 stat that has been repeatedly targeted and threatened this year.
GAY BARS SEE CREASED SECURY, CTOMERS ACROSS USA ONE WEEK AFTER ORLANDO
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"Jt hours before the attack at Club Q Colorado Sprgs, someone threw a brick through the wdow of gay bar Vers the Hell's Kchen neighborhood of New York Cy for the fourth time this month, acrdg to police.
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GAY PORTLAND NIGHTCLUBS, VENU TALK SECURY AS PRI BEGS
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San Francis Police Highly-Visible at LGBT Gay Pri Para. [01:20] — Gay Pri (LGBT) weekend starts June 25, 2016, San Francis. Gay Pri Para 2016 is expected to draw one-ln people.
GAY MAN SAYS SECURY GUARDS SAVAGELY BEAT HIM AT POPULAR NIGHTCLUB
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Nightclub Secury Plan for Gay Pri Celebratn. “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.
WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR NSIRG ARMED GUARDS AFTER ORLANDO SHOOTG
“I’ve already been through a lot of anti-gay life, ” said Robson, who is gay.
STORMY DANIELS’ ENTOURAGE ACCED OF ABHORRENT BEHAVR AT INIC GAY NIGHTCLUB
” 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.
FBI HAS FOUND NO EVINCE THAT ORLANDO SHOOTER TARGETED PULSE BEE WAS A GAY CLUB
” 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. ’s 2016 Gay Pri celebratn this weekend. 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.
“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.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
"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.