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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• 25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’
• 2 KILLED, SEVERAL JURED SHOOTG AT GAY BAR NORWAY'S OSLO
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
• HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.

25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. Photo cred: globalgayz/facebook.

On the week when the LGBT muny celebrated s fourth Gay Pri — four years after Stonewall — an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge at the French Quarter, killg 32 people on June 24, 1973.

He said he believed gay men were agents of the vil, stalkg him and ”tryg to steal my soul jt by lookg at me.

SHOOTG AT OSLO GAY CLUB THAT KILLED TWO AND JURED 21 VTIGATED AS ‘ACT OF TERROR’

” His father, a mister, said his ttimony that Cmpley maybe had a ”a homosexual problem himself. On April 28, 1990 at Uncle Charlie's, another gay bar Greenwich Village Manhattan, three men were jured an explosn possibly ed by a pipe bomb. They said Nosair, a mlim, attacked the bar bee he objected to homosexualy on relig grounds acrdg to report om the New York Tim.

Buice and ne of his iends tried go to several bars a gay area of Montrose, but they were refed entry. They then attacked Buice and two other iends wh nail-studd woon planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outsi Heaven, a gay bar the cy's heavily LGBT Montrose district.

2 KILLED, SEVERAL JURED SHOOTG AT GAY BAR NORWAY'S OSLO

“Homosexualy is an aberrant sexual behavr, ” he wrote a statement. “Like other humans sufferg om var disabili homosexuals should not attempt to fect the rt of society wh their particular illns.

Two people were killed and 81 were jured after a bomb explod a gay bar London's Soho, on April 30, 1999. The blast happened at the by Admiral Dunn pub the center of London's very gay neighborhood at the start of a holiday weekend. Peter Tatchell, spokman for the gay rights group OutRage!, said: “A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe felt able to relax and hold hands whout fear of attack.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

22, 2000, a man lled Ronald Gay asked directns to a gay bar so he uld “shoot some people. Gay told police he didn't like beg lled Gay.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

He also said  was his missn to make all gays move to San Francis, which he thought would end AIDS.

He asked the bartenr if he was at a gay bar, orred a uple of beers, and moved to the back of the bar, watchg a game of pool briefly before takg out a hatchet — a small ax the size of a hammer. At the San Diego Gay Pri ftival July 30, 2006, six men were attacked wh baseball bats and kniv after leavg the Pri ftival.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

The attackers ed anti-gay slurs as they beat the victims. Osvan Inác dos Santos was leavg a gay bar Arapira a small cy the Alagoas, Northeast of Brazil wh a group of iends, after he won a lol ‘Miss Gay' petn on Sept. Tedy Marqu, print of the Alagoas Gay Group, said that “Homophobia is one of the worst problems Brazil fac.

It is unacceptable that every other day our untry a homosexual is btally murred. He said he wanted to shake Neve's hand bee he had never shaken a gay man's hand before, but Neve refed. One of the three spects later told police their tent was to target homosexuals, said Galvton Police Department Lt.

AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS

The tr also hurled homophobic sults, thori said. On April 11, 2009 Jt Goodw was attacked at a bar  Gloucter, Massachetts by as many as five people, who were g anti-gay remarks. In New York Cy, a man named Frerick Giunta was charged and arrted on October 17, 2010 for allegedly attackg and assltg people two bars Greenwich Village: Ty's Bar on Christopher Street and nearby Juli Bar on W 10th St hurlg anti-gay remarks.

Acrdg to NYPD officials, Giunta has a history of mtg crim by targetg men at gay bars. The spects reportedly told the man, “We don't like gay bars, and we don't piss next to faggots” before the asslt began.

“I'm not gog to say sorry, bee I don't know what I should be sorry for, ” said Francis, who also sisted he's not a homophobe. “I don't hate gay people.

HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

On October 25, 2011 a man sprayed 21-year-old Rsel Banks wh liquid fuel and threw a l match at him at the Rabow and Dove gay bar Leicter Cy, England.

An unintified rmant told the FBI that, the numero nversatns after their first meetg, Masmari often exprsed a “distaste for homosexual people, ” and that Masmari “oped that homosexuals should be extermated.

On June 1, 2014 two iends were killed after they left R Place, a gay club Seattle. After months of vlent anti-gay attacks, Central Statn, Rsia's largt gay club closed s doors on March 27, 2014. On October 1, 2014 a man named Wayne Ogard shot a man at the Salon, a popular gay bar Mneapolis.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

On April 8, 2016, an employee of a popular Wt Hollywood gay bar was attacked as he left the bar walkg towards his r on an apparent hate crime.

A mass shootg at a popular gay bar and nightclub the Norwegian pal of Oslo which killed two people is beg treated as a terrorist were fired at three lotns, cludg the London Pub, a gay bar, as well as near the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a takeaway, on Friday eveng – the eve of the cy’s Pri celebratns. ”A Norwegian police officer stands guard the streets of central Oslo between secury tape l after shots were fired outsi the London pub, killg two people (Photo: Javad Parsa / NTB / AFP via Getty Imag)Oslo was due to hold s annual Pri para later on Saturday, jt months after Norway marked 50 years sce the aboln of a law that crimalised gay anisers of the Oslo Pri ftival ncelled the para and all remag events followg police advice.