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The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

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ORLANDO MASSACRE: NAM OF GAY BAR SHOOTG VICTIMS EMERGE

The worst mass shootg morn Amerin history was also a hate crime agast the gay muny. It's not the first time LGBT people have been the targets of vlence. * gay club shooting in orlando victims *

Image source, APThe worst mass shootg morn Amerin history was also a hate crime agast the gay muny. It's not the first time LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people have been the targets of vlence.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

Fifty people were killed, cludg the gunman, and 53 others jured a shootg at Pulse, a gay club Orlando. * gay club shooting in orlando victims *

"This is an pecially heartbreakg day for all our iends - our fellow Amerins - who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " he said an addrs to the natn.

"The Orlando attack is a paful remr that even though the US has ma historic stris broang the rights of s LGBT cizens - like the legalisatn of gay marriage June 2015 - the stggle up until this pot has been a difficult and sometim vlent one.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

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 club shooting in orlando victims *

Image source, RtersImage ptn, A year ago the Whe Hoe was l up rabow lours to mark the Supreme Court's lg on gay marriageSeattle's openly gay mayor Ed Murray says the stggle for equal rights has ually seen moments of progrs followed by a vlent reactn. Nicholas Syrett, -chair of the Commtee on LGBT History and a profsor at the Universy of Northern Colorado, said more openns me wh a st:"Those who still rema transigent their hostily and opposn to gay people, they're gog to be exposed to more of them bee we are creasgly able to be open. " Image source, AFP/Getty ImagImage ptn, Protters mand change after the murr of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, 1998Until the shootg Orlando, the largt mass ath at a gay club was the arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge New Orleans, Louisiana, 1973.

In more recent history, 2014, a Seattle man set fire to a stairwell at a gay bar lled Neighbours, claimg "what the people are dog is wrong". In 1997, Eric Rudolph bombed a lbian bar Atlanta, jurg Syrett said that while large-sle attacks on the LGBT muny were not as mon, there had been hundreds of dividual asslts and murrs, cludg the high-profile beatg ath of Matthew Shepard Wyomg source, APImage ptn, The jured receive treatment outsi the Admiral Dunn pub LondonSiar attacks have taken place ternatnally as well - 1999, a nail bomb killed three people and jured dozens more at the Admiral Dunn pub, the heart of London's gay muny. The culpr was a right-wg have also been documented executns of gay people terrory ntrolled by the so-lled Islamic State (IS).

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

One was a homebody and stunt who'd recently e out to his fay. Another was a cheery pharmacy technician. Another promoted a gay cise le. * gay club shooting in orlando victims *

"Isis [another name for IS] are also profsnal when to trackg gay people. "They are tryg to track down every gay man.

Media ptn, IS's targetg of gay people is supported by many who oppose the group says one man who fled Syria - his words are spoken by an actor"The targetg, persecutn and killg of LGBT [people] Isis-ntrolled terrory is extensive. "Though Mr Wallace said he did not want to dimish the sufferg of the gay muny, he add that the attacks Orlando were about much more than an opposn to homosexualy. Fifty people were killed and 53 jured after a gunman opened fire at the Pulse gay nightclub the early hours of Sunday morng.

Sotomayor worked as the brand manager for Al and Chuck Travel, a pany that specializ vatns for those the gay owner of the pany, Al Fergon, wrote he was at the hospal wh Sotomayor's fay and felt "empty" upon hearg the news. When left his native Puerto Ri to live Orlando search of enomic opportuni and the chance to live more openly as a gay man the pair offered up a room the home they bought. "They faced the odds, Luis me om Puerto Ri and beg gay isn't totally accepted, obvly here, but 's not totally accepted there as well, " his Luis Wilson tells PEOPLE.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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"She loved the gay muny, the LGBT muny. Christe told ABC through tears that her son tablished the gay-straight alliance at his high school and received a humanarian award for his efforts.

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. (AP) — 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. Kimberly "KJ" Morris was a bouncer wh an pennt four were at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that beme the scene of the untry's worst mass shootg recent history.

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 * gay club shooting in orlando victims *

— 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 -wi mural, the rgg of church bells and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY CLUB SHOOTING IN ORLANDO VICTIMS

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