Gay bar attacks have taken place for years before Orlando's horrific Pulse nightclub massacre. Here are 25 that should remd we mt rema vigilant.
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- 25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
- IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
- BUDDI GAY BAR MIDTOWN APPARENTLY CLOS AFTER OWNER’S ATH APRIL HOE EXPLOSN
- POLICE OPENED FIRE ON A GAY BAR BEE THE OWNER WAS HANDG OUT WATER TO PROTTORS
- TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY EXPLOSN
25 VLENT ATTACKS AT GAY BARS THAT PRECED ORLANDO’S HORRIFIC NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
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A myster firebug poured gasole on the floor of a gay-iendly Brooklyn bar and then set alight, g a small explosn that sged two club workers and displaced tenants om apartments above the venue, thori and wns night had barely begun at Rash Bar at 941 Willoughby Ave.
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.
IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
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” His father, a mister, said his ttimony that Cmpley maybe had a ”a homosexual problem himself.
BUDDI GAY BAR MIDTOWN APPARENTLY CLOS AFTER OWNER’S ATH APRIL HOE EXPLOSN
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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. “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.
POLICE OPENED FIRE ON A GAY BAR BEE THE OWNER WAS HANDG OUT WATER TO PROTTORS
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. 22, 2000, a man lled Ronald Gay asked directns to a gay bar so he uld “shoot some people.
TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
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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.
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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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. 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.
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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.
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.