One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.
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- 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
- ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
- AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
- AFTER MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB, AN ARRAY OF OPNS ABOUT THE MOTIVE AND MEANG
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history. * 2016 gay club massacre *
A homophobic ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people and wound 53 others durg a rampage at a gay nightclub Florida early Sunday — markg the untry’s adlit mass shootg. Spected gay nightclub mass shooter Omar Mateen.
Mateen’s father told NBC that his son recently got “very angry” at the sight of men kissg each other Miami and said his anti-gay fury might have triggered the massacre. The elr Mateen told NBC that his son’s rampage “has nothg to do wh relign, ” and suggted was motivated by anti-gay hatred. — A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another.
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
The worst mass shootg U.S. history was rried out at Pulse, a gay nightclub, by Omar Mateen – a man the FBI had prevly vtigated. * 2016 gay club massacre *
11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry. Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para.
Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U. An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said.
While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said. A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter.
AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege. * 2016 gay club massacre *
She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS. Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando.
AFTER MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB, AN ARRAY OF OPNS ABOUT THE MOTIVE AND MEANG
At least 50 people are ad and more than 50 others are wound after a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday morng. * 2016 gay club massacre *
In Orlando, people grappled wh the magnu of the horror: One man armed wh an asslt rifle and a pistol managed to kill 49 people and wound another 53 si a gay nightclub.
— -- The massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub early this morng has been scribed as a "domtic terror cint, " wh at least 50 ad and 53 jured, officials said, makg the worst mass shootg U. Orlando police tweeted, "The shooter si the nightclub is ad, " referrg to Pulse Nightclub, which bills self on s webse as "Orlando's Premier Gay Night Club.
"It's no cince the attack took place where did and when did, " he said reference to the fact that Pulse was a gay nightclub.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
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The shootg Sce s openg 2004, Orlando’s Pulse dance club had tablished self as one of central Florida’s most vibrant centr for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social life.
AdvertisementSKIP Hodgson for The New York TimJune 13, 2016Ted Elltt, a gay llege senr om Mae, said he was not jumpg to nclns that the Orlando mass shootg was a hate crime agast gay people or an act of terrorism.
Fcher, 69, referrg to Islam and the Uned lotn of the attacks, a popular gay club, proved the killer’s motive to Corrie Yackulic, a lawyer who liv near Seattle.
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
Complete verage of the shootgs at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., the worst mass shootg U.S. history. * 2016 gay club massacre *
“It’s an anti-gay bias, ” said Ms. “If you’re tryg to take down the Amerin ernment, you don’t attack a gay bar Orlando.
While gun vlence often cleav people to predictable, polilly intifiable mps, and terrorist attacks tend to une untri grief and rolve, Orlando has so far fied easy tegorizatns and Tmp, the prumptive Republin printial nomee, for stance, seized on the attacks on Monday to renew his ll for a ban on Mlim immigratn, but he also lavished empathy on gay people — many of whom oppose his bid — and fend their sire to “love who they want and exprs their inty. Yet some liberals and tellectuals argued that gun ntrol was not the only problem, notg that there were parts of Islam and the Quran hostile to homosexualy. “The left is very worried about homophobia but ’s also very worried about Islamophobia, so there is gog to be some real gnive dissonance on the left as people talkg about a Mlim killg many gay people, ” said Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and profsor at New York Universy’s Stern School of many gay people, while agreeg that Orlando was a terrorist attack, said they were offend that some Republin officials have refed to acknowledge that the massacre uld be nsired a hate crime — or even to e the word “gay” talkg about .
In remarks om the Capol on Monday, Senator Mch McConnell, the Senate majory lear, nmned the Islamic State as a group that “ccifi children and beheads women” but notably omted any mentn of Bra on Sunday, an openly gay journalist stormed off the set of Sky News program, which was found by Rupert Murdoch, after beg trated that the show’s host was portrayg Orlando as an attack on the eedom of all people rather than discsg “ as an attack on L. And vlence agast gay, lbian and transgenr people has led to equent and alarmed discsns among gay such clary exists around Orlando, at least for now. She said she and her iends were spired by the support om fay members, but worried that Orlando uld have a ripple effect for gay people.