Pulse is not alone: A brief history of attacks on gay clubs

list of gay club shootings

Fifty people were killed, cludg the gunman, and 53 others jured a shootg at Pulse, a gay club Orlando.

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PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS

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A police officer ss their vehicle while rpondg to a mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U.

- ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot ad by police.

HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

Five people were killed and many more jured a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. Here's what we know about the ad. * list of gay club shootings *

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"The gunman Sunday’s Orlando attack, Omar Matteen, had pledged allegiance to ISIS, acrdg to news ’s a list of attacks agast gay clubs and events—which Story says often lack aquate secury—that earned global attentn recent s:Gay Pri Para, Jesalem, 2015: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed six people, killg one, 10 years after attackg participants the same para 2005.

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events * list of gay club shootings *

Central Statn, Mosw 2014: The Central Statn, a large gay nightclub, was forced to close after a strg of attacks, cludg beg sprayed wh bullets and gassed. It has sce reopened a new lotn that has bulletproof Club, Yerevan, Armenia, 2012: The gay-iendly bar was firebombed and spray-pated wh swastikas the same month. The gunman told police he was on a missn to kill gay people.

The bomber, Eric Rudolph, who plead guilty to the bombg of the 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta, said the attack “was meant to send a powerful msage prott of Washgton's ntued tolerance and support for the homosexual polil agenda.

• June 12, 2016 — A gunman opens fire Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, killg 50 people and sendg 53 to the hospal.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

31, 2013 – Mab Masmari poured gasole a stairway at a s-old gay nightclub and set on fire. An associate of his "reported that Masmari nfid him that he "burned a gay club" and that he did bee 'what the people are dog is wrong, '" an assistant U. • March 1, 2009 – Brothers Lawrence Henry Lewis and Lawrneil Henry Lewis and their Alejandro Sam Gray hurled chunks of ncrete at patrons of a gay bar  Galvton, Texas.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

22, 2000 – Ronald Gay opened fire a gay bar Roanoke, Va., killg 43-year-old Danny Overstreet and jurg six others.

Gay told police he didn't like beg teased about his last name.

Gay told thori was his missn to make all gays move to San Francis, which he thought would end AIDS. 21, 1997 – Eric Rudolph sets off a nail-lan explosive vice at the Othersi Lounge, a nightclub Atlanta wh a mostly gay and lbian clientele. Rudolph, better known for targetg the 1996 Summer Olympics, said he was strikg back at a "morally rpt ernment" that allows abortn and homosexualy.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* LIST OF GAY CLUB SHOOTINGS

Here are the five victims who were killed Colorado gay nightclub shootg .

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