Orlando's Pulse nightclub, where 50 people were shot early Sunday, is more than "jt another gay bar."
Contents:
- 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
- THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
- PULSE WILL BE THIS GENERATN’S STONEWALL, SAYS ORLANDO GAY BAR OWNER
- PULSE IS MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY BAR': THE STORY BEHD THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB THAT BEME THE SE OF AMERI'S LATT MASS SHOOTG
- PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
- LE PULSE, BAR GAY ET LBIEN MARSEILLE à NSOMMER SANS MODéRATN
50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
Gay bars were a safe space, but what do one do when the place meant as a haven om the world's attacks is, stead, a target? * the pulse gay bar *
But this week, the cy is also memorializg a years ago today, a gunman opened fire Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando, killg 49 people and woundg more than 50. Senate unanimoly passed legislatn signatg the se of the gay club a natnal Hoe passed s versn of the bill May 12.
Ron DeSantis signed a new state budget that cut fundg for Orlando’s LGBTQ Communy Center and an anizatn that ho homels LGBTQ, now media relatns manager for Equaly Florida, said the cuts meant DeSantis “has clared war” on the state’s gay muny. It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime. In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by.
A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn. ” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women. The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg.
THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
ORLANDO — Managers of gay bars Orlando face a dilemma the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shootg: the qutn of whether to close their doors out of rpect or stay open to provi fort. The LGBT muny has lled the cy’s clubs s safe havens and centers for solidary — somethg sorely needs right now. Leigh Stern, 36, the operatns manager at Woodstock, who is grievg the loss of many iends, said his bar has been closed out of rpect for the victims of the Sunday morng massacre, which left 49 ad and dozens more jured. * the pulse gay bar *
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.
When the world awoke two years ago to the news that a gunman had killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, one immediate qutn was: Why that place? Durg the attack, gunman Omar Mateen lled 911 and pledged allegiance to the lear of the vilently anti-gay Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a group that releas propaganda vios of gay men beg thrown off buildgs.
The reason he chose Pulse seemed obv: he hated gay days after the attack, on June 16, 2016, Print Barack Obama vised survivors Orlando and livered a statement.
PULSE WILL BE THIS GENERATN’S STONEWALL, SAYS ORLANDO GAY BAR OWNER
One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. * the pulse gay bar *
”A few days earlier, printial ndidate Donald Tmp said at a rally, “A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn. In their closg statement, ernment prosecutors admted that there was no evince to suggt that Mateen knew that Pulse was a gay leav another qutn: How uld the Pulse attack be a hate crime agast gay people if the perpetrator chose randomly? In particular, mors that Mateen was a closeted gay man and had targeted the club out of first wife, Sora Yufiy, suggted an terview wh Time magaze, wh ltle evince other than his penchant for bodybuildg and mirror-gazg, that Omar Mateen uld have been gay.
”Univisn aired an terview wh a disguised man named “Miguel” who lled Mateen “100 percent” gay, but there were no electronic rerds of their alleged Grdr-facilated renzvo, and other news outlets st doubt on his Salman, wife of Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, a Facebook profile FacebookJt hours after the shootg began, Salman was an FBI terrogatn room. The terrogatn was not an exclive terview wh NBC News, one of Salman’s lawyers, Charl Swift, said the FBI agents failed to rerd the terrogatn bee they sought a nfsn for a crime they assumed was an attack on gay men, rather than a random mass shootg that targeted Amerins , who is director of the Constutnal Law Center for Mlims Ameri and a former Navy lawyer for the Judge Advote General divisn who fend men acced of terrorism at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, said beme clear to him that the FBI agents “were dog somethg different here. Des worth of artists and performers of all strip (lol, natnal, gay, straight) lled the club home.
PULSE IS MORE THAN 'JT ANOTHER GAY BAR': THE STORY BEHD THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB THAT BEME THE SE OF AMERI'S LATT MASS SHOOTG
After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bartenrs. * the pulse gay bar *
Rabow flags have hung om lampposts along Orange Avenue sce 1998 durg Natnal Gay Pri Month. Other iends I’ve rennected wh followg the shootg remd me that a lot of venu where our own bands played or where we saw Fugazi, Portishead, Weezer and other groups were gay clubs the rt of the week. It remds me of my first time gog to a gay bar and feelg like I was safe, bee I was at the gay bar.
Ray Rivera, aka DJ Infe, who was spng on the pat of Pulse when the shootg broke out, has said he’ll ntue to play clubs Orlando — gay, straight, whatever. “I n’t tell you how many stori I have read that have told me that Pulse was the first gay bar they ever went to, how they were shakg fear, how they weren’t out to their fai and how Pulse weled them, ” she says. Correctn append, June 15 If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to sow terror the LGBT muny, he uldn’t have chosen a more apt target.
But the tail of havg happened not jt to gay people (by a gunman whose father has spoken out about his son’s dislike of gay men) but at a gay bar cuts to the very heart of a margalized group’s fears.
PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
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For s, gay bars have functned not merely as waterg hol but as gatherg plac and facto muny centers. Sunday morng’s attack didn’t jt cut short dozens of liv; also tore a hole the very agile sense of secury for gay people Ameri.
Read more: What to Know About the Pulse Nightclub Shootg Orlando Gay bars have occupied their functn for s (a Bourbon Street tablishment claims to be Ameri’s olst, havg operated sce the end of Prohibn), and have been the object of srn and ocsnal vlence throughout that time. That vlence, like the burng of New Orleans’s Upstairs Lounge, killg 32, June 1973, only served to emphasize the importance of strongholds where gay people uld, y, drk, but also socialize among themselv and velop their own social mor.
LE PULSE, BAR GAY ET LBIEN MARSEILLE à NSOMMER SANS MODéRATN
U.S. Print Joe Bin on Friday signated the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, a natnal memorial, to honor the 49 people killed a 2016 mass shootg, and urged Congrs to pass laws explicly protectg civil rights of LGBTQ+ people. * the pulse gay bar *
In an cint so famo that Barack Obama mentned almost offhandly his send Ingural Addrs, the police raid on the Stonewall Inn June 1969 helped crystallize exactly what the gay movement was up agast—and tly ma a movement. Gay people have fought, through recent history, for cremental steps towards equaly, and that fight began at the muny center. But that fight n too often seem, for younger gay people, very much of the last century.
What’s noticeable about gay bars the ma is not their stat as centers for public polil anizatn but their anonymy. Equaly also means the right to a space of one’s own, and gay bars reprent a sort of separatens, or eedom om scty, that’s available nowhere else the culture.