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Contents:

• PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
• TWO HERO STOP GUNMAN WHO KILLED FIVE GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

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

A man who has been lled a hero for helpg subdue the spect the adly Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub mass shootg has spoken out about what he experienced si the venue. • 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.

TWO HERO STOP GUNMAN WHO KILLED FIVE GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

Gay told police he didn't like beg teased about his last name. 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. •June 24, 1973 – An arsonist sets fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar New Orleans' French Quarter, killg 32 THE BLOODSHED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MASS KILLINGSEveryone was 'droppg and screamg': Wns scribe chaos Orlando shootgOrlando nightclub shootg: What we know.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

An employee at a gay nightclub San Anton, Texas was h wh a bullet on Wednday night after several patrons at the bar got to a fight and one of them pulled a gun. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.

Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.

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

Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet. We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive).