Gay bars were a safe space, but what do one do when the place meant as a haven om the world's attacks is, stead, a target?
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- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- '90 DAY FIANCé': ARMANDO TELLS HIS PARENTS HE'S GAY AND MOVG TO BE WH KENH
- WDOWS SHOT OUT AT ORLANDO GAY BAR
- 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
- THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
- GUNMAN SHOOTS OUT GAY BAR WDOWS YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON AN LGBTQ+ VENUE
- ORLANDO MASSACRE: NAM OF GAY BAR SHOOTG VICTIMS EMERGE
- GAY ORLANDO
- THE BEST ORLANDO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ORLANDO
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
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He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
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ORLANDO — A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire si a crowd gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leavg 49 people ad and 53 jured the adlit mass shootg U. But also igned fears of a broar mpaign agast the Amerin gay, lbian and transgenr muny as the first anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriage after the Orlando attack, police Southern California reported arrtg a heavily armed man who said he was head to a gay pri para the Los Angel area — though thori later said they were mistaken about the man’s target.
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Meanwhile, Washgton, police stepped up patrols ahead of the Capal Pri Ftival, one of dozens of gay pri events schled this month across the natn and around the world. (Vio: Moni Akhtar/The Washgton Post, Photo: STEVE NESIUS/The Washgton Post)The Islamic State has repeatedly executed gay people and released vios showg their gome executns.
“We’re proud of our gay muny Orlando, ” Mary Zika early Sunday eveng, a Florida LGBT advocy group had raised nearly half a ln dollars for the victims. A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police said. Armando, 31, prevly explaed that he tried to tell his parents he was gay three years ago, but that they did not accept and that he's been aaid to brg up sce.
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Correctn append, June 15 If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to sow terror the LGBT muny, he uldn’t have chosen a more apt target. But the tail of havg happened not jt to gay people (by a gunman whose father has spoken out about his son’s dislike of gay men) but at a gay bar cuts to the very heart of a margalized group’s fears.
For s, gay bars have functned not merely as waterg hol but as gatherg plac and facto muny centers. Sunday morng’s attack didn’t jt cut short dozens of liv; also tore a hole the very agile sense of secury for gay people Ameri.