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
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- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. * gay nightclub massacre *
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
The 49 people killed a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida have been honored Orlando and around the world on the fifth anniversary of the attack. * gay nightclub massacre *
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SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
The 49 people killed a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida were honored Orlando and around the world on Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the attack. Speakers at an eveng remembrance ceremony on the grounds of former Pulse nightclub said a rabow appeared as survivors of the shootg, fay members of those who died and first rponrs gathered. The se, south of downtown Orlando, was turned to an terim memorial led wh photos of the victims and rabow-lored flowers and mementos. * gay nightclub massacre *
(AP) — The 49 people killed a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida were honored Orlando and around the world on Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the attack. Young, an openly gay man who reported to the scene the night of the shootg, said he’s seen iendships strengthen and the muny une over the past five years.
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He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet. We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive).
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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.
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Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.
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Complete verage of the shootgs at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., the worst mass shootg U.S. history. * gay nightclub massacre *
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He was sentenced to life prison Rudolph (who has a gay brother) said a statement durg his sentencg that he did not md homosexualy that remaed private. The gunman, Ronald Edward Gay, 53, opened fire when he saw two men the bar hug each other.
One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. * gay nightclub massacre *
Gay, who told the police he was on a missn to kill gay people, said he was upset that his last name had ma him the target of anti-gay jok. Seattle, 2014Mab Mohammed Masmari, 30, poured gasole on the stairs of a gay club and set alight shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve. More than 700 people were the club at the time, cludg much of the cy’s gay and transgenr learship, but no one was Masmari plead guilty to arson and was sentenced to 10 years prison July 2014.
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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.
Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wi mural and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. * gay nightclub massacre *
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.