Pulse Was More Than Jt a Gay Club: It Was a Place Where We Didn't Have to Hi | GQ

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• 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

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WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

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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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