Two people were killed and more than 70 people jured this eveng when a nail bomb explod a gay pub central London.
Contents:
- TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
- THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
- IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR
- LONDON MORI FEAR AS TWO DIE GAY BAR BOMBG
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- NEO-NAZI PLOT AIMED AT GAY BAR, FBI SAYS -- WHE SUPREMACISTS HELD IN ALLEGED BOMBG PLAN
TWO AD, 81 JURED AS NAIL BOMB BLASTS GAY PUB SOHO
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For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTWO PEOPLE were killed and81 jured, 13 of them serly, when a bomb explod last night a crowd gay bar Soho, central London. 37pm whout warng, vastated the Admiral Dunn pub Old Compton Street, the pal's gay centre. Ten mut before the blast police had rdoned off a phone box nearby Shaftbury Avenue, although was not knownwhether this was lked to the explosn shocked the gay muny and ethnic mori, g ls than a week after last Saturday's blast Brick Lane London's East End and the prev week's nail-bomb attack on Brixton market, which jured 39.
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THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
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"Peter Tatchell, spokman for the gay rights group OutRage!, said: "A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe felt able to relax and hold hands whout fear of attack. Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar. Gay pubs are far more than bars; they’re refug.
IN LATT ATLANTA BOMBG, 5 ARE INJURED AT A GAY BAR
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The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter. The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy.
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LONDON MORI FEAR AS TWO DIE GAY BAR BOMBG
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It whispered to ckney-accented gay boys like me: there are others like you. 23, 1997See the article s origal ntext om Febary 23, 1997, Sectn 1, Page 18Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the fourth such cint seven months, a bomb explod Atlanta on Friday night, this one jurg at least five people at a gay nightclub and pellg law-enforcement officials to explore whether a serial bomber is at police vtigated the bombg at the Othersi Lounge, they found a backpack ntag a send bomb the club's parkg lot. Were much more ut on the nightclub, which primarily serv gay men and lbians, is on Piedmont Road, a by thoroughfare northeast Atlanta that was blocked off today as the police searched for shrapnel and other Spadafore said that at least 100 people had been the club at the time of the explosn and that another bar across the street, the Hot Spot, had also been crowd.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 18 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: In Latt Atlanta Bombg, 5 Are Injured at a Gay Bar. After gay & lbian bar Othersi Lounge was bombed by a terrorist Atlanta, her doors re-opened fiance of the attack.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
On Febary 21, 1997, the Othersi Lounge was bombed by a domtic terrorist named Eric Rudolph who sought to harm gays and lbians who were out and proud. Owners of the Atlanta gay bar, Beverly McMahon and Dana Ford, refed to back down om fear and quickly re-opened their bar fiance of the terrorism that they and the greater queer muny faced.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
The gay nightclub hosted drag queen events and themed nights, such as jazz, hip-hop, and untry.
The Othersi Lounge served as a safe haven for lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and trans people thrown out of their hom or otherwise disowned by fay members and iends for beg who they are. The holidays are often a particularly difficult time for the LGBTQ muny, pecially durg an era where homophobia ran rampant and few laws existed to protect gays and lbians om discrimatn. When cidg to open the gay bar, McMahon poted to the importance of providg a space where everyone felt safe and accepted.
In an terview wh Geia Voice, she said, “It was very important to me early on that I would have a bs, no matter what would be, where everyone was wele: gay, straight, Black, whe. At least while at the Othersi Lounge, gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr people uld worry ls about the polil climate and jt be themselv. When Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell ed Memrie Wells-Crwell’s name a subsequent prs nference, she was fired om her real tate job for beg gay.
NEO-NAZI PLOT AIMED AT GAY BAR, FBI SAYS -- WHE SUPREMACISTS HELD IN ALLEGED BOMBG PLAN
Some regulars returned to their favore Atlanta gay bar, but many did not.
Bomber Eric Rudolph’s Anti-Gay & Anti-Abortn Extremism. Eric Rudolph fostered extreme anti-gay and anti-abortn beliefs to adulthood, and chose those groups as targets of his terrorism. Ford says she is proud of what the Othersi Lounge reprented to LGBTQ Atlantans: “I hope we ma the impact wh the muny to empower and strengthen and be part of the fabric of the gay muny … y was our savgs; y was our retirement.
Today, there are a uple of lbian bars Atlanta, as well as many gay bars. But wh the anti-LGBTQ actns of the prev printial admistratn and a rise of whe supremacist terrorism 2021, safety for gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr people is far om guaranteed. It n be easy to fet that one of Ameri’s largt mass shootgs history happened at a gay nightclub.