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Contents:
- PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
- WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
- PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVORS ANIZE EX-GAY 'FREEDOM MARCH' ORLANDO
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI
One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. * pulse orlando gay *
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WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
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A small gay bar, the Parrot is the only LGBTQ+ nightlife tablishment Polk County, an area that remas eply nservative. But the five years sce a shooter killed 49 people more than 50 away at the gay nightclub Pulse Orlando, Work said her muny has bee more acceptg.
Many of the victims killed or jured durg the Pulse shootg didn’t live Orlando — they me om nearby ci like Kissimmee, Sanford and Davenport to enjoy gay clubs they uldn’t fd their hometowns.
PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVORS ANIZE EX-GAY 'FREEDOM MARCH' ORLANDO
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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.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
” 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.
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