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• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG; ATTACK IS WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• GUNMAN KILLS 49 FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB; ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY
• ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
• A SHOOTG AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB IN ORLANDO KILLED 49 PEOPLE
• ISIS CLAIMS RPONSIBILY FOR ATTACK AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB, THE DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

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.

50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

The elr Mateen told NBC that his son’s rampage “has nothg to do wh relign, ” and suggted was motivated by anti-gay hatred. NEW YORK -- The gay, lbian and transgenr muny has seen vlence before, om Harvey Milk to Matthew Shepard, and an ever-lengtheng list of transgenr women. Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events.

This "is a tragic illtratn of the legimate safety fears that those our LGBT muny live wh every day, " said Mike Rawlg, the mayor of Dallas, where extra police were assigned to a neighborhood that is a hub of the lol gay muny. In a separate cint Sunday, a heavily armed man was arrted Southern California even as Mateen's attack was ongog, tellg police he was on his way to attack a gay pri Jam Wley, of Indiana, had asslt rifl, ammunn and chemils that uld be ed to make an explosive, acrdg to police, who said there was no evince of a nnectn to the Orlando massacre. Before Sunday, the most proment cints of vlence agast gays claimed one life at a time.

The hight profile of the clud the murr of Milk, a pneerg gay polician San Francis 1978, and the 1998 murr of Shepard, a gay llege stunt Wyomg at the hands of two men who beat him to a a while he was tied to a fence. "There have been a few prev attacks on gay nightclubs, but only one that ed a signifint number of aths.

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG; ATTACK IS WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

31, 2013, about 750 people were celebratg New Year's Eve at Neighbours, a popular gay nightclub Seattle, when Mab Masmari poured gasole on a rpeted stairway and set ablaze. Robert Matenc, who works as a host at Neighbours, said the club rpond to the arson attack by addg extra secury guards durg large special events, and trag employe crowd 's attack stck a place that has long been thought of as a safe haven for the muny -- the gay nightclub.

"Nightclubs have always been sacred spac for queer people, plac to gather and glter away om the judgg glar of society, where we uld love and be loved for who we are and how we want to be, " wrote Pl Rshenbh, a clergyman and popular gay wrer, exprsg his heartbreak a lengthy, emotnal post on Facebook which he relled gog out dancg while at semary New many ci, vigils were planned at LGBT muny centers and other gatherg spots to memorate the victims New York Cy, LGBT people and their alli nverged on the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village spontaneo reactn to the shootg.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

The Manhattan bar beme a natnal symbol of gay rights after a 1969 police raid led to vlent street ont of the red brick faça, Cameron Cano stood proudly wh a rabow flag draped over her shoulrs.

Stonewall is "where we go when thgs like this happen, " said Andy Humm, host of the "Gay USA" TV gay bars add secury measur, or nsired dog so the aftermath of the Orlando attack.

"We have a lot of nightclubs that are gay nightclubs, " Evans said. "At eagleBOLT, a gay bar Mneapolis, patrons watched big-screen TVs silence as Print Barack Obama nounced the Orlando shootg as an "act of terror.

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

Pl, Mnota, said he to gay bars to relax. Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.

Gay nightclub. - 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.

GUNMAN KILLS 49 FLORIDA GAY NIGHTCLUB; ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY

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.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive). Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.

A SHOOTG AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB IN ORLANDO KILLED 49 PEOPLE

A gunman opened fire si a gay nightclub early Sunday (June 12), killg 50 people and jurg 53  the worst mass shootg US history.

MIAMI (AFP, REUTERS) - A state of emergency has been clared Florida after a gunman opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub Orlando early Sunday (June 12), killg 50 people and jurg 53 the worst mass shootg US history. The father of the spected gunman said on Sunday he believed his son was motivated by hatred of gays - not by his Mlim relign. He said his son, Omar Mateen, recently lashed out his prence after wnsg a gay uple embracg downtown Miami, and suggted the cint may have triggered the atrocy.

The club advertis self onle as "Orlando's hottt gay bar. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

ISIS CLAIMS RPONSIBILY FOR ATTACK AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB, THE DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

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