Man who opened fire on Roanoke gay bar two s ago di

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• THE BEST ROANOKE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ROANOKE
•  VIRGIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG
• MAN NVICTED 2000 VIRGIA GAY BAR SHOOTG DI PRISON
• GAY DATG ROANOKE
• GAY FRIENDLY AREAS VIRGIA
• ROANOKE GAY BAR REMEMBERS SHOOTG 16 YEARS LATER

THE BEST ROANOKE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ROANOKE

Ronald Gay(None)Published: Jan. (WDBJ) - The man nvicted of openg fire at a Roanoke gay bar has Virgia Department of Correctns said Ronald Gay died of natural last Saturday at a was servg back-to-back life sentenc for the shootg at Backstreet Cafe Sept. Lol NewsRonald Gay killed one person and hurt six others on Sept.

 VIRGIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

22, 2000Ronald Gay durg urt proceedgs eher 2000 or 2001 (WSLS 10)ROANOKE, Va. – The man who killed one person and shot six others at a Roanoke gay bar more than 20 years ago has died, acrdg to the Virgia Department of Gay, 75, died on Saturday, Jan.

(WSLS 10)On July 23, 2001, Gay was sentenced to four nsecutive life sentenc for his crim and prr to beg hospalized was at Deerfield Correctnal Center Southampton County.

MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI

She would later tell a crowd urtroom that she would never be the mut, police picked up the shooter, Ronald Edward Gay, then 53, who ma no effort to pe.

When they terviewed him, he railed agast gay people, sayg that they were “abomatns, ” that his last name was related to a bunch of “sickos, ” and that a higher power had told him: “It’s eher you or them” — meang he eher had to kill himself or kill homosexuals.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

So he took his pistol to Backstreet, and when he heard gay men “talkg their sissified talk, ” he jt uldn’t take . (Gay died January 2022 while imprisoned for multiple life sentenc.

”Jt two years earlier, lol police had raid a park popular for gay cisg and arrted men for solicg unrver officers.

GAYS ROANOKE ED TO HI WHO THEY WERE — UNTIL A ADLY BAR SHOOTG

“It’s a lot of the historic gay bars and nightclubs, but also talkg about sex work, like the old red-light district, ” explaed G. ”In 2018, openly gay clergyman Joe Cobb, then 56, ran for cy uncil. Still, he wasn’t sure whether Roanoke was ready to elect a gay man.

MAN NVICTED 2000 VIRGIA GAY BAR SHOOTG DI PRISON

Not only did Cobb bee Roanoke’s first openly gay elected official, but he garnered more vot than any other uncil member, which, to his surprise, ma him the cy’s new vice his role, he hears om many LGBTQ people, and the recent attack at Colorado’s Club Q, has left some rattled, pecially trans people.

But efforts sce to be more visible and build relatnships have also helped foster a level of acceptance Roanoke that was unimagable Cobb ran for reelectn this November, he was joed by three new gay ndidat. Praisg Cobb and the two new gay uncil members, he said, “In this time, when nservativ have embraced anti-LGBTQ rhetoric as a motivator for their base, they persevered.

”A gay first lady? A gay first lady? The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

GAY DATG ROANOKE

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. 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.

GAY FRIENDLY AREAS VIRGIA

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. 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. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. "It was his way of payg tribute to his Verizon -worker Danny Overstreet, who was killed 15 years ago at a gatherg spot for gay people a closeted cy.

ROANOKE GAY BAR REMEMBERS SHOOTG 16 YEARS LATER

Backstreet was a gay bar at a time when the sexual orientatn of s ctomers remaed hidn — a haven for an unrground culture. 22, 2000, when Ronald Edward Gay, a former Mare who had been tnted for his name and hated , walked , orred a beer, spotted two men embracg — and opened fire. ”Tucker nied that he was gay an terview wh the Roanoke Tim, sistg that he was at the bar wh a girliend and didn’t know any of the other people there that then, few uld have predicted the seismic chang that were g to the untry, to Virgia and to Roanoke — on same-sex marriage, on gays servg the ary, on the emergence of openly gay athlet, chief executiv and celebri.