The man who killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub Orlando was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, classmat, iends and club employe told ABC News.
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- 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
At least 49 people are killed and dozens jured by a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando. What exactly happened? * orlando gay club attack *
Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.
ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG 'AN ACT OF TERROR AND HATE'
The mass murr at a gay nightclub Orlando is both the adlit terror attack si the U.S. sce 9/11 — and the adlit hate crime agast a gay target Amerin history. * orlando gay club attack *
- 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.
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.
AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
The worst mass shootg morn Amerin history was also a hate crime agast the gay muny. It's not the first time LGBT people have been the targets of vlence. * orlando gay club attack *
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.
WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
US Print Barack Obama nmns the gun attack on an Orlando gay nightclub that left 50 people ad, as IS says was behd the attack. * orlando gay club attack *
" 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.
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
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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.
Eric Yarbrough, print of the Associatn of LGBTQ Psychiatrists, talks to NBC OUT about the likely impact of the mass shootg at an Orlando gay bar. * orlando gay club attack *
"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. 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.
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. * orlando gay club attack *
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".
Followg a mass shootg at a gay bar Orlando, Florida, "vastatn" and "utter shock" were beg felt across the cy's LGBTQ muny. * orlando gay club attack *
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. 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.