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?
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
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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.
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 *
Senate unanimoly passed legislatn signatg the se of the gay club a natnal Hoe passed s versn of the bill May 12.
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 *
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.
Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.
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 *
- 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?
PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
Orlando's Pulse nightclub, where 50 people were shot early Sunday, is more than "jt another gay bar." * the pulse gay bar *
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.
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 *
”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.