In 1973, An Arson Killed 32 People At A Gay Bar. For Years, It Was Fotten : NPR

Contents:

• 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

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.

IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN

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

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.

POLICE OPENED FIRE ON A GAY BAR BEE THE OWNER WAS HANDG OUT WATER TO PROTTORS

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.

TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO

“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.

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

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.

GAY EXPLOSN

22, 2000, a man lled Ronald Gay asked directns to a gay bar so he uld “shoot some people.