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

Contents:

• PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

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

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

Fifty people were killed and 53 jured after a gunman opened fire at the Pulse gay nightclub the early hours of Sunday morng. Sotomayor worked as the brand manager for Al and Chuck Travel, a pany that specializ vatns for those the gay owner of the pany, Al Fergon, wrote he was at the hospal wh Sotomayor's fay and felt "empty" upon hearg the news. When left his native Puerto Ri to live Orlando search of enomic opportuni and the chance to live more openly as a gay man the pair offered up a room the home they bought.

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

Matthew Shepard list of well-publicized murrs of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people now clus victims of the worst mass shootg U. History, which saw 49 people gunned down this weekend at a gay nightclub Orlando, clearly wispread, and far om nfed to recent s, vlent attacks rooted genr or sexualy are difficult to quantify.

"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.

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.

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

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.

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

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

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

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.