Spect Intified Gay Nightclub Massacre

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• SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED
• GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB
• ‘PHEW, HE’S NOT GAY’: COLORADO SHOOTER’S FATHER REACTS AS HE LEARNS SON KILLED FIVE A QUEER CLUB
• ‘HEROIC’ PATRONS OF GAY NIGHTCLUB SUBDUED GUNMAN AFTER HE OPENED FIRE, KILLG 5 PEOPLE
• 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• 49 KILLED AT PULSE GAY CLUB ORLANDO; DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORYABSOLUTE EVILOMAR MATEEN SHOT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE EARLY SUNDAY THE ADLIT SHOOTG ATTACK AMERIN HISTORY. GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERJT MILLERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:42PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 10:34AM EDT STEVE NI / RTERSTHE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG MORN AMERIN HISTORY KILLED 49 PEOPLE AFTER A GUNMAN ATTACKED A GAY DANCE CLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA.OMAR MATEEN, OF PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA, SHOT HIS WAY TO PULSE NIGHTCLUB AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY WH AN ASSLT RIFLE, ORLANDO POLICE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY. MATEEN REPORTEDLY TOOK HOSTAGE SEVERAL PATRONS WHO WERE HIDG A BATHROOM. A SWAT UN ENTERED THE CLUB AT 6 A.M. AND KILLED MATEEN WHAT WAS SCRIBED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AS A STAED GUN BATTLE. PHOTOS: SCEN OM THE MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB MATEEN ED AN “AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID. THE AR-15 HAS BEEN THE SIGNATURE WEAPON OF MASS SHOOTERS AMERI, ED BY ADAM LANZA TO KILL 26 AT SANDY HOOK AND THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS TO KILL 14. THE ATTACK IS BEG VTIGATED AS AN ACT OF DOMTIC TERRORISM. REP. ADAM SCHIFF, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE HOE PERMANENT SELECT COMMTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, TOLD CNN THAT, ACRDG TO HOMELAND SECURY AND LOL LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, MATEEN “MA A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE” TO THE ISLAMIC STATE TERROR GROUP AND HAD BEEN “HEARD PRAYG A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.” IT IS UNCLEAR IF MATEEN WAS PRAYG DIBLY DURG THE SHOOTG, SCHIFF SAID. PETE WILLIAMS OF NBC NEWS REPORTED THAT MATEEN LLED A 911 EMERGENCY LE AND SWORE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS LEAR ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI BEFORE THE MASSACRE.MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THE ATTACK “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.” HE WENT ON TO SAY HIS SON GOT ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG MIAMI A FEW MONTHS AGO. “WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT. WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY,” SEDDIQUE SAID. ACRDG TO ACUNTS OM THE SCENE, THE GUNMAN TRAD GUNFIRE WH A POLICE OFFICER BEFORE ENTERG PULSE AT 2 A.M. MOST OF THE TIMATED 320 PEOPLE SI PED, BUT AN UNKNOWN NUMBER WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE A BATHROOM. ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER TOLD CNN THE ATH TOLL JUMPED OM 20 TO 50 AS ADDNAL VICTIMS WERE FOUND SI THE CLUB. PERSONNEL ULD NOT GO IMMEDIATELY AS EXPLOSIV WERE SPECTED TO HAVE BEEN HIDN. ACRDG TO DYER, THERE WERE FIVE TO EIGHT HOSTAG ONE ROOM WH THE SHOOTER AND AN ADDNAL 15 TO 20 A SEPARATE ROOM AT THE TIME WHEN POLICE ENTERED. MA JTICE SAID HER SON EDDIE WAS SI THE CLUB AND TEXTED HER WHEN THE GUNSHOTS EPTED, THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED. JTICE TOLD HIS MOM HE AND OTHERS RAN TO THE BATHROOM TO HI.“HE’S G,” JTICE TEXTED, ADDG LATER: “HE HAS , AND HE’S HERE WH .”“THAT WAS THE LAST NVERSATN,” HIS MOTHER SAID.PULSE WAS FOUND 2004 BY BARBARA POMA AND HER IEND RON LEGLER AFTER POMA’S BROTHER DIED OF AIDS, ACRDG TO USA TODAY. SHE WANTED TO HELP PROMOTE AWARENS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY, AND PULSE REFERS TO SELF AS “NOT JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB.”AS SOON AS THE SHOOTG BROKE OUT, THE CLUB POSTED A STAT UPDATE TO S FACEBOOK PAGE TELLG EVERYONE TO GET OUT AND “KEEP NNG.” “AS SOON AS WE HAVE ANY RMATN WE WILL UPDATE EVERYONE,” THE CLUB POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE AT 6 A.M. SUNDAY. “PLEASE KEEP EVERYONE YOUR PRAYERS AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS TRAGIC EVENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND LOVE.”SUNDAY MORNG’S MASSACRE ME BARELY 36 HOURS AFTER A MAN SHOT AND KILLED SGER CHRISTA GRIMMIE WHILE SHE WAS SIGNG TOGRAPHS ORLANDO. THE KILLER, KEV LOIBL, WAS TACKLED BY GRIMMIE’S BROTHER AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF.PRINT OBAMA ADDRSED THE NATN LATER THE AFTERNOON, SEEMGLY FEATED BY HAVG TO MAKE THE SPEECH SO MANY TIM. “WE HAVE TO CI IF THAT’S THE UNTRY WE WANT TO BE. TO ACTIVELY DO NOTHG IS A CISN AS WELL,” HE SAID A SHORT ADDRS WHILE EMPHASIZG THAT AN ATTACK ON THE LGBT MUNY IS AN ATTACK ON “ALL OF .”READ MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB GION RNICK
• IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
• HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

5 Dead, 18 Injured Gay Nightclub Massacre... Another massacre at a gay club has left 5 ad and at least 18 jured. A gunman opened fire at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs.

This is far om the first attack gay clubs.

GAY CLUB CTOMER GRABS GUN OM MASS SHOOTER AND HS HIM WH OWN WEAPON AFTER FIVE KILLED

"Heroic people" nonted a gunman who killed five people at a gay nightclub the US and stopped him killg any more, police have least 25 others were jured at Club Q the cy of Colorado Sprgs. At least two firearms were found at the scene and the FBI is assistg wh the vtigatn, Mr Vasquez officers are workg to intify those that died, and to tablish whether anyone helped the Polis, the ernor of Colorado, who is gay, mend the "brave dividuals who blocked the gunman", scribg the attack as "horrific, sickeng and vastatg" more: There are mass shootgs elsewhere, but Ameri's problem wh guns stands alonePrint Joe Bin said: "Plac that are supposed to be safe spac of acceptance and celebratn should never be turned to plac of terror and vlence.

Eleven ambulanc and 34 firefighters attend the scene, wh the cint scribed as "a mass sualty event" Castro said officers were able to enter the club area around the nightclub, loted a shoppg centre on the outskirts of Colorado Sprgs, was closed Q scrib self as an "adult-oriented gay and lbian nightclub hostg theme nights", wh events cludg karaoke, drag shows and DJ sets. In 2016, a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, killg 49 people before he was shot ad by police. The spect acced of enterg a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub and killg five people and woundg 17 others was formally charged wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and murr.

DENVER — The shooter who plead guilty to killg five people and jurg 17 others at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was sentenced Monday to life prison. Photographs of victims of a weekend mass shootg at a nearby gay nightclub are on display at a memorial Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Nov. In a shockg vio, Aaron Brk, the father of the Colorado Sprgs’ shootg acced is seen liverg homophobic statements an terview wh CBS News 8.

GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

While reactg to the news of his son Anrson Lee Aldrich’s adly shootg that killed five people and jured 25, Brk says, “They started tellg me about the cint, a shootg… And then I go on to fd out ’s a gay bar. I got sred, ‘Sh, is he gay? ’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a nservative Republin.

” He later says, “My opn about gays is that is not okay”.

Image beg relieved that your son is only a mass murrer and not a homosexual.

CLUB Q SHOOTER SENTENCED TO LIFE PRISON FOR ATTACK ON GAY NIGHTCLUB

More ncerned his son might be gay than he killed nocent people. I n only image what might go through your md if your child mted such a horrific, vlent act…but “at least he’s not gay” fely feels like a “failed at parentg” moment — TheDiva (@MilHell) November 23, 2022. (AP) — A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said Sunday.

The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg “sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.

‘PHEW, HE’S NOT GAY’: COLORADO SHOOTER’S FATHER REACTS AS HE LEARNS SON KILLED FIVE A QUEER CLUB

The prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist pastor. — 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, thori said. Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor, said, “My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured and trmatized this horrific shootg.

Baldw works the mic dtry, and the uple have many gay iends, they said. ”Sarah Kate Ellis, print of GLAAD, the world’s largt LGBTQ media advocy anizatn, suggted an alarmg rise hate speech and anti-gay legislatn spir such vlence. For years, Club Q was the only gay club Colorado Sprgs.

‘HEROIC’ PATRONS OF GAY NIGHTCLUB SUBDUED GUNMAN AFTER HE OPENED FIRE, KILLG 5 PEOPLE

- A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday morng at a Florida nightclub -- which scrib self as "Orlando's hottt gay bar" -- left an timated 50 people ad, cludg the gunman, and more than 50 jured, officials say. Orlando shooter's father says son had "anti-gay leangs, " @CBSNews' Mark Strassmann reports CBSN (@CBSNLive) June 12, 2016Dyer said that addn to the 50 people who were killed the attack, 53 were treated for juri.

50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

The adlit mass shootg morn Amerin history killed 49 people after a gunman attacked a gay dance club Orlando, Mateen, of Port St. She wanted to help promote awarens about the LGBT muny, and Pulse refers to self as “not jt another gay club.

On June 24, 1973, a fire ripped through the Up Stairs Lounge — a gay bar the French Quarter of New Orleans.

49 KILLED AT PULSE GAY CLUB ORLANDO; DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORYABSOLUTE EVILOMAR MATEEN SHOT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE EARLY SUNDAY THE ADLIT SHOOTG ATTACK AMERIN HISTORY. GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERJT MILLERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:42PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 10:34AM EDT STEVE NI / RTERSTHE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG MORN AMERIN HISTORY KILLED 49 PEOPLE AFTER A GUNMAN ATTACKED A GAY DANCE CLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA.OMAR MATEEN, OF PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA, SHOT HIS WAY TO PULSE NIGHTCLUB AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY WH AN ASSLT RIFLE, ORLANDO POLICE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY. MATEEN REPORTEDLY TOOK HOSTAGE SEVERAL PATRONS WHO WERE HIDG A BATHROOM. A SWAT UN ENTERED THE CLUB AT 6 A.M. AND KILLED MATEEN WHAT WAS SCRIBED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AS A STAED GUN BATTLE. PHOTOS: SCEN OM THE MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB MATEEN ED AN “AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID. THE AR-15 HAS BEEN THE SIGNATURE WEAPON OF MASS SHOOTERS AMERI, ED BY ADAM LANZA TO KILL 26 AT SANDY HOOK AND THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS TO KILL 14. THE ATTACK IS BEG VTIGATED AS AN ACT OF DOMTIC TERRORISM. REP. ADAM SCHIFF, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE HOE PERMANENT SELECT COMMTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, TOLD CNN THAT, ACRDG TO HOMELAND SECURY AND LOL LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, MATEEN “MA A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE” TO THE ISLAMIC STATE TERROR GROUP AND HAD BEEN “HEARD PRAYG A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.” IT IS UNCLEAR IF MATEEN WAS PRAYG DIBLY DURG THE SHOOTG, SCHIFF SAID. PETE WILLIAMS OF NBC NEWS REPORTED THAT MATEEN LLED A 911 EMERGENCY LE AND SWORE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS LEAR ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI BEFORE THE MASSACRE.MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THE ATTACK “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.” HE WENT ON TO SAY HIS SON GOT ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG MIAMI A FEW MONTHS AGO. “WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT. WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY,” SEDDIQUE SAID. ACRDG TO ACUNTS OM THE SCENE, THE GUNMAN TRAD GUNFIRE WH A POLICE OFFICER BEFORE ENTERG PULSE AT 2 A.M. MOST OF THE TIMATED 320 PEOPLE SI PED, BUT AN UNKNOWN NUMBER WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE A BATHROOM. ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER TOLD CNN THE ATH TOLL JUMPED OM 20 TO 50 AS ADDNAL VICTIMS WERE FOUND SI THE CLUB. PERSONNEL ULD NOT GO IMMEDIATELY AS EXPLOSIV WERE SPECTED TO HAVE BEEN HIDN. ACRDG TO DYER, THERE WERE FIVE TO EIGHT HOSTAG ONE ROOM WH THE SHOOTER AND AN ADDNAL 15 TO 20 A SEPARATE ROOM AT THE TIME WHEN POLICE ENTERED. MA JTICE SAID HER SON EDDIE WAS SI THE CLUB AND TEXTED HER WHEN THE GUNSHOTS EPTED, THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED. JTICE TOLD HIS MOM HE AND OTHERS RAN TO THE BATHROOM TO HI.“HE’S G,” JTICE TEXTED, ADDG LATER: “HE HAS , AND HE’S HERE WH .”“THAT WAS THE LAST NVERSATN,” HIS MOTHER SAID.PULSE WAS FOUND 2004 BY BARBARA POMA AND HER IEND RON LEGLER AFTER POMA’S BROTHER DIED OF AIDS, ACRDG TO USA TODAY. SHE WANTED TO HELP PROMOTE AWARENS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY, AND PULSE REFERS TO SELF AS “NOT JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB.”AS SOON AS THE SHOOTG BROKE OUT, THE CLUB POSTED A STAT UPDATE TO S FACEBOOK PAGE TELLG EVERYONE TO GET OUT AND “KEEP NNG.” “AS SOON AS WE HAVE ANY RMATN WE WILL UPDATE EVERYONE,” THE CLUB POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE AT 6 A.M. SUNDAY. “PLEASE KEEP EVERYONE YOUR PRAYERS AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS TRAGIC EVENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND LOVE.”SUNDAY MORNG’S MASSACRE ME BARELY 36 HOURS AFTER A MAN SHOT AND KILLED SGER CHRISTA GRIMMIE WHILE SHE WAS SIGNG TOGRAPHS ORLANDO. THE KILLER, KEV LOIBL, WAS TACKLED BY GRIMMIE’S BROTHER AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF.PRINT OBAMA ADDRSED THE NATN LATER THE AFTERNOON, SEEMGLY FEATED BY HAVG TO MAKE THE SPEECH SO MANY TIM. “WE HAVE TO CI IF THAT’S THE UNTRY WE WANT TO BE. TO ACTIVELY DO NOTHG IS A CISN AS WELL,” HE SAID A SHORT ADDRS WHILE EMPHASIZG THAT AN ATTACK ON THE LGBT MUNY IS AN ATTACK ON “ALL OF .”READ MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB GION RNICK

Much of the history was swept om memory due to homophobia.

The Tim-Piyune scrib the cy at the time as "extremely homophobic. " Police would raid gay bars equently and employment discrimatn agast gays was " rigr.

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

" Homosexualy was nsired a psychiatric disorr. " The man spected of startg the fire, Roger Nunez, was gay himself and had been kicked out of the bar earlier. The Tim-Piyune said the fire was "a turng pot for the cy's gay muny.

"By early fall, there was creasg evince that the tragedy had roed a dre of gay New Orleanians ways unthkable jt a season before, " thor Robert Fieler wr Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn. About was six months after the adly fire, December 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn clared homosexualy was not a mental disorr.

SummaryGunman kills two, jur 21Revellers hid basement of Oslo barOfficial Pri para ncelled after tragedyTerrorism threat asssment raised to hight levelPri rabow 'loured black', ernment mister saysOSLO, June 25 (Rters) - Terrified revellers at a gay bar Oslo hid a basement and sperately lled loved on as a gunman went on the rampage, killg two people and jurg 21 on the day the cy was due to celebrate s annual Pri para.

HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

[1/5]People brg flowers and rabow flags to pay tribute to the victims as they take part a spontaneo Pri para, followg a shootg at the London Pub, a popular gay bar and nightclub, after the official event was ncelled, Oslo, Norway, June 25, 2022. Norwegian secury thori raised the untry's terrorism threat asssment to s hight level followg the attack, which 21 people were also wound, 10 of them police, who are not normally armed, will rry guns until further notice, major events the pal went ahead as planned on Saturday, police and anisers said, cludg a large outdoor mic ftival and a soccer match between the women's teams of Norway and New shootg took place jt months after Norway marked 50 years sce the aboln of a law that crimalised gay Nordic natn of 5.