At least 49 people are killed and dozens jured by a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando. What exactly happened?
Contents:
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- REVIEW: A GAY NIGHTCLUB TRAGEDY, DES BEFORE ORLANDO, ‘THE VIEW UPSTAIRS’
- BT GAY CLUBS SAN ANTON
- FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR
- KYRGYZSTAN’S ONLY GAY NIGHTCLUB CLOS UNR LGBT CRACKDOWN
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
Max Vernon’s new mil sends a ntemporary man back to 1973 and the UpStairs, a real New Orleans gay bar stroyed by arson. * gay nightclub 2017 *
But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier.
REVIEW: A GAY NIGHTCLUB TRAGEDY, DES BEFORE ORLANDO, ‘THE VIEW UPSTAIRS’
* gay nightclub 2017 *
Theater|Review: A Gay Nightclub Tragedy, Des Before Orlando, ‘The View UpStairs’ SneddonMarch 7, 2017There are bars where everybody knows your name, and bars where people ve you to a bathroom tryst. UpStairs is the platonic ial of a gay bar: lored lights, a whe piano, tchotchk on every available surface, photos of Elton John and Bea Arthur — Jason Sherwood’s immersive set is so vg that your first impulse may be to orr a the vibe is old school, ’s bee ’s 1973.
UpStairs was an actual New Orleans bar that was stroyed that year a horrendo act of arson that killed 32 — the worst anti-gay rnage until the Pulse nightclub shootg Orlando last year.
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BT GAY CLUBS SAN ANTON
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Bar’s Last Night.
FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR
And I don’t mean jt gay people. "Army vet who took down Colorado gunman says ‘I’m not a hero’ "I'm not a hero, " clared the Army veteran who helped subdue a gunman at a Colorado gay nightclub, addg that his thoughts are wh the fai of the five people sla.
KYRGYZSTAN’S ONLY GAY NIGHTCLUB CLOS UNR LGBT CRACKDOWN
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— Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman si a gay nightclub Saturday night Colorado Sprgs, endg a rampage that killed at least five people and jured 19 others, his wife said an terview at her home Monday afternoon, Jsi Fierro scribed her hband’s heroic efforts to prevent greater tragedy. He was a member of the universy's GayStraight Alliance, Mabery said, and was "very active" the school's LGBTQ muny. A report released Augt by the Human Rights Campaign, the untry's largt LGBTQ rights group, and the non-ernmental anizatn Center for Counterg Digal Hate, found anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged onle earlier this year the wake of the passage of Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law.