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- OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
- IDAHO POLICE ARRT DOZENS ON SPICN OF NSPIRACY TO RT AT GAY PRI EVENT
OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
Oslo’s annual Pri para was nceled on Saturday followg a adly shootg at a gay bar that Norwegian police are vtigatg as a possible terrorist attack. * gay pride attack *
Amatr vio of the cint shared onle by LGBTQ activists showed protters screamg anti-gay slurs their targets’ fac. In the San Francis Bay Area, a group of men displayg Proud Boy lors stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library shoutg homophobic and transphobic threats after anti-LGBTQ LibsofTikTok swl Chaya Raichik posted rmatn about the event onle. Overseas, two people were killed and 21 jured when a shooter opened fire at the London Pub gay bar Oslo.
The 42-year-old spect, Zaniar Matapour, has been an active member an Islamic extremist work wh ti to Arfan Bhatti, a Norwegian Islamic radil wh strong anti-gay views. Lrdale, a Florida man wearg a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt was arrted after brandishg a load gun outsi a popular gay bar. A New York Cy police officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man durg a nontatn Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march New York on Aug.
IDAHO POLICE ARRT DOZENS ON SPICN OF NSPIRACY TO RT AT GAY PRI EVENT
A police raid at the Stonewall Inn 1969 set off the morn gay rights movement.
In terviews wh NPR, several evoked the June 2016 shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando where 49 people were killed. Further wt, a crew of Proud Boys terpted a drag queen event California, timidatg parents and children and screamg transphobic and homophobic sults.
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