Orlando Nightclub Shootg: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club

Contents:

• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG 'AN ACT OF TERROR AND HATE'
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
• ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.

- A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday 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 GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG 'AN ACT OF TERROR AND HATE'

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Details ntue to emerge about the gunman's motiveA gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, killg at least 49 people and jurg dozens before beg shot ad by police.

She told the FBI her hband said he was gog to see iends, though she thought he was gog to rry out an attack at the night club, officials have told the US are also media reports that she said she was wh him when he bought ammunn and a holster, and drove him to Pulse once to spe ptn, Jim Van Horn, Pulse nightclub ctomer: "He (Omar Mateen) was a homosexual and he was tryg to pick up men"Mateen appears to have been a regular at the club and he ntacted men on gay datg apps, raisg the possibily that he was nflicted about beg gay and lashed out. 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.

Sce 9/11 — and the adlit hate crime agast a gay target Amerin the vtigatn is ongog, early reports dite that the ceased shooter, Omar Mateen, exprsed solidary wh ISIS on a ll to 911, suggtg a Sunni Jihadist father, Seddique Mir Mateen, also told NBC News that his son was angry at the sight of two men kissg Miami a few months ago, which may have motivated his attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. "While vtigators may take weeks to tablish the killer’s exact motivatns, lears of Ameri’s gay muny are already speakg out about the vastatg impact of a mass murr at a gay nightclub the middle of gay pri month.

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

" Hate crim targetg gay Amerins are a mon problem, send only to race as a target of hate, though they rarely occur bars or nightclubs. That clus 65 2 percent of the natnal hate crim occurred gay bars or nightclubs, acrdg to the Sunday’s attack, the Human Rights Campaign stated that "22 percent of all hate crim Florida" are based on sexual orientatn, "trailg only race as the most mon motivatn, " acrdg to data om Equaly shootgs often reigne the policy bate over accs to guns, and hate crim prent another flt le that most stat, people nvicted of mismeanor hate crim may still legally purchase majory of stat “have not enacted laws to prevent nvicted mismeanant hate crimals om havg easy accs to guns, " acrdg to a 2016 report, "Hate and Guns, " by the Center for Amerin for Mateen, he was able to legally purchase firearms wh the past week, acrdg to the ATF. The Senate voted down a plan to tighten that le be legally barred om buyg firearms for crimal activy, unr feral law, an dividual mt be nvicted of a Para-goers remember the Orlando nightclub victims Los Angel, Sunday, June 12, Scher / APAs Amerins procs the Orlando attack and policians weigh , the jarrg mix of Islamic terrorism, anti-gay hate and domtic gun policy is sure to stoke many bat the days to the adlit attack on U.

"This is an pecially heartbreakg day for all our iends - our fellow Amerins - who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " he said an addrs to the natn. "The Orlando attack is a paful remr that even though the US has ma historic stris broang the rights of s LGBT cizens - like the legalisatn of gay marriage June 2015 - the stggle up until this pot has been a difficult and sometim vlent one. Image source, RtersImage ptn, A year ago the Whe Hoe was l up rabow lours to mark the Supreme Court's lg on gay marriageSeattle's openly gay mayor Ed Murray says the stggle for equal rights has ually seen moments of progrs followed by a vlent reactn.

WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS

Nicholas Syrett, -chair of the Commtee on LGBT History and a profsor at the Universy of Northern Colorado, said more openns me wh a st:"Those who still rema transigent their hostily and opposn to gay people, they're gog to be exposed to more of them bee we are creasgly able to be open. " Image source, AFP/Getty ImagImage ptn, Protters mand change after the murr of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, 1998Until the shootg Orlando, the largt mass ath at a gay club was the arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge New Orleans, Louisiana, 1973. In more recent history, 2014, a Seattle man set fire to a stairwell at a gay bar lled Neighbours, claimg "what the people are dog is wrong".

In 1997, Eric Rudolph bombed a lbian bar Atlanta, jurg Syrett said that while large-sle attacks on the LGBT muny were not as mon, there had been hundreds of dividual asslts and murrs, cludg the high-profile beatg ath of Matthew Shepard Wyomg source, APImage ptn, The jured receive treatment outsi the Admiral Dunn pub LondonSiar attacks have taken place ternatnally as well - 1999, a nail bomb killed three people and jured dozens more at the Admiral Dunn pub, the heart of London's gay muny.

The culpr was a right-wg have also been documented executns of gay people terrory ntrolled by the so-lled Islamic State (IS). Media ptn, IS's targetg of gay people is supported by many who oppose the group says one man who fled Syria - his words are spoken by an actor"The targetg, persecutn and killg of LGBT [people] Isis-ntrolled terrory is extensive. "Though Mr Wallace said he did not want to dimish the sufferg of the gay muny, he add that the attacks Orlando were about much more than an opposn to homosexualy.

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

Media ptn, Print Obama: "We are uned grief, outrage - and rolve"US Print Barack Obama has scribed Sunday morng's gun attack on a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, as "an act of terror and an act of hate". A moment of silence was observed across the US at 18:00 lol time (22:00 GMT) an apparently unrelated event, a heavily armed man was held on weapons and explosive materials charg southern California after sayg he wanted to go to a gay pri event Los ntrolMr Obama said the "btal murr of dozens of nocent people" was a further remr of how easy was to acquire a adly weapon the US and shoot people. " And a msage to LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people, she said: "We will keep fightg for your right to live eely, openly and whout fear.

"If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not gog to have a untry any more, " he ptn, Nihad Awad: "Homophobia, transphobia, Islamaphobia are ternnected systems"The head of the Council on Amerin-Islamic Relatns urged policians not to "sre pots" or "explo fear" the aftermath of the attack. His employers, G4S, said he had worked for them for ne years and rried a gun as part of his a statement, the pany said he had unrgone screeng twice, 2007 and 2013, and the checks had not revealed anythg of ex-wife, Sora Yufiy, said he was "unstable", had a vlent temper and beat her up regularly durg their short-lived marriage for trivial thgs like not dog ptn, Eyewns Anthony Torr fled the scene and filmed as he watched people shootg "back and forth"The ath toll means that the Orlando attack surpass the 2007 massacre at Virgia Tech, which left 32 people of emergency have been clared the cy of Orlando and surroundg Orange US mass shootgs last 25 yearsAt least 50 ad, 2016 - Omar Mateen opens fire on revellers at gay club Orlando, Florida32 ad, 2007 - Stunt Sng-Hui Cho massacr stunts at Virgia Tech universy before killg himself27 ad, 2012 - Adam Lanza kills 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six adults before killg himself at Sandy Hook, Connecticut23 ad, 1991 - Gee Hennard driv through the wall of a fe Killeen, Texas, before openg fire and mtg suici14 ad, 2015 - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik open fire at a staff gatherg San Bernardo13 ad, 2009 - Maj Nidal Malik Hasan opens fire at army base Fort Hood, Texas13 ad, 2009 - Jiverly Wong shoots people at New York immigrant centre before killg himself13 ad, 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill fellow stunts and a teacher at Columbe High School Ltleton, ColoradoOrlando Police Chief John Ma said the attack began at 02:00 (06:00 GMT). — -- 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. — -- The man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Omar Mateen, was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, club employe, acquatanc and former classmat told ABC News.

A former classmate at a police amy — who requted he not be intified — told ABC News that Mateen hung out wh him and others, equentg Florida gay bars while they were at the Indian River State College trag program, as far back as night, he said, Mateen asked him if he was gay.

Employe and patrons at Pulse told ABC News that Mateen went to the bar on a regular Callen, a performer at the club, said Mateen “didn’t seem homophobic to me. What clubs are poppg and thgs of that sort and what are good plac to go, ” Wt purported behavr appears severely at odds wh how Mateen said he felt about gay people, acrdg to his ex-wife, Sora Yufiy, who was married to Mateen briefly 2009. Islamic culture, is really not tolerated, homosexualy, and I know at the time he was tryg to get his life straight and follow his fah.

I gus that created some nfn between that, and there was fely moments that he would exprs his tolerance to homosexuals, ” she said Yufiy said Mateen had told her that he ed to go out to night clubs “a lot, ” but never said they were gay clubs. One n be, on the one hand, fightg agast the perhaps ner attractn of homosexualy and at the same time honorg the act by sayg he was a radil Islamist. Saturday night’s adly attack on a popular Orlando nightclub, which killed at least 50 people and jured 53, was not the first adly attack on an LGBT bar or 1973, the Upstairs Lounge —a New Orleans gay bar — was set on fire by an unknown arsonist, killg 32 people what was then the adlit attack on an LGBT Quton weeps as he is helped by New Orleans firefighters after he ped om a fire at the UpStairs bar, June 25, 1973.

Quton said he was wh a group sgg around a piano when the fire swept through the bar leavg 29 ad and 15 file“In 1973 anti-gay rhetoric was everywhere bee the gay movement was jt emergg and we were slowly gettg var rights, ” says Lillian Farman, a historian and thor of “The Gay Revolutn. ”“I thk the hatred on the part of the relig right was rife then and grew and grew throughout the 1970s as gay people were gettg more and more rights, ” she New Orleans attack and those that followed rrelated wh a growg atmosphere of acceptance of LGBT people, acrdg to Farman.

“In the urse of the 70s, as the gay movement was gettg better and better anized, and more attentn om the media, really triggered relig extremism and anized hatred ually motivated by the relig right, ” she says. New Orleans didn’t have one, but the media would have vered the fact that there was a gay pri para New York and there was one L. And one San Francis, ” Farman 1977, jt four years after the New Orleans attack, the Miami-Da County Commissn add sexual orientatn to an already existg cy ordance, which would prohib discrimatn agast gays.