Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound. Lol law enforcement officials say the shootgs uld be classified as an act of domtic terrorism. Erik Sandoval of CBS affiliate WKMG has the latt.
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- NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
- FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
- A FIRE KILLED 32 AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR. THIS ARTIST DIDN’T FET.
- GUNFIRE EPTS SI FLA. GAY NIGHTCLUB
- PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
- ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
- THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
Book chronicl 1973 arson at gay club that barely ma to the papers, or even to the nscns of the muny * gay night club fire *
The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.
”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday.
FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO A FIRE NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR TOOK 32 LIV – AND WAS MET WH APATHY
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Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge arson, a flash fire that killed 32 people the New Orleans gay bar on June 24, 1973. ”But the UpStairs wasn’t jt a space for the New Orleans gay muny to e together and socialize.
A FIRE KILLED 32 AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR. THIS ARTIST DIDN’T FET.
Colorado Authori said Sunday that a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Colorado — killg five and jurg 25 — was subdued by “heroic” patrons who h him wh his own gun. * gay night club fire *
Some of those who were intified went unclaimed by fai who were too ashamed to llect the remas of their gay sons and brothers. Bettmann via Getty ImagWhat happened the aftermath of the fire mak clear the pervadg homophobia at the time. “It took a good five or six years before I would fally walk to a gay bar, ” he said.
” Click below to see more pictur of the UpStairs Lounge before the earlier versn of this article was published June You GoGay Pri Around The World.
GUNFIRE EPTS SI FLA. GAY NIGHTCLUB
The man who set a fire si a crowd Capol Hill gay nightclub on New Year’s Eve was sentenced Thursday to 10 years feral prison for arson — double... * gay night club fire *
Sillen Glenn, who moved to New York om Florida 2015, said the fire had ma them thk of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where a gunman wh an asslt rifle and a pistol killed 50 people and wound 53 more 2016.
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people a New Orleans gay bar, the Cy Council has renewed the search for the remas of four victims, cludg three who were never intified.
PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
At least 50 people are ad and more than 50 others are wound after a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday morng. * gay night club fire *
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people a New Orleans gay bar, the Cy Council has renewed the search Thursday, Aug, 4, 2022, for the remas of four victims, cludg three who were never intified. Rooted pervasive anti-gay sentiment" ma sufferg worse for victims' fai and iends, stat the motn wrten by Councilmember J. The blaze was the 20th century's largt mass killg of gays, the Cy Council's apology and Thursday's motn noted.
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
LeBlanc was tranged om his fay California — not bee of his homosexualy but bee he hadn't paid money owed to his grandfather, Fieler wrote "Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn. The other replied, g a slur for homosexuals, "Let 'em burn.
THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
An oasis for the cy’s sizeable but, for the most part, strictly closeted gay male populatn, a lack of visibily was many ways s most valuable 1973 when the club was set ablaze an act of arson that st a staggerg 32 liv, that lack of attentn endured, the news barely makg to the papers or, seemed, even to the nscns of the lol muny. “An ordary reactn New Orleans society would have been effive sympathi and a large outpourg, ” said Robert Fieler, whose new book Trbox: The Untold Story of the UpStairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, chronicl the blaze and s aftermath.
“Homosexualy was not supposed to be talked about openly, and when was thst to the open ma a lot of people panic, ” he told the Guardian an the time, New Orleans was a place of strange dualy for LGBT people. “A gay man uld, 1973, live a very full life that he might not be able to enjoy other plac.
Acrdg to Fieler, unrver police would regularly nduct stg operatns to tch gay men solicg for sex public spac, and if ught and arrted on a dread “crim agast nature” charge, the ramifitns the wir world were absolute.