Colorado gay nightclub massacre shows Democrats' hypocrisy

Contents:

• BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN
• COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE SHOWS DEMOCRATS’ HYPOCRISY
• 2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE

BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

Groups and lears dozens of hate-filled letters, cludg one warng of an attack that would make the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida “look like a kewalk. In June 2016, Omar Mateen fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Kilmnick said that the first threateng letter sent to his group, 2013, warned of vlence that would make the Boston Marathon bombg pale other letters that Mr. Arnold/Associated PrsJune 14, 2016The terrorist attack that killed 49 and wound 53 Orlando, Fla., was the largt mass killg of gay people Amerin history, but before Sunday that grim distctn was held by a largely fotten arson at a New Orleans bar 1973 that killed 32 people at a time of pernic anti-gay stigma.

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COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE SHOWS DEMOCRATS’ HYPOCRISY

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2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE

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ETA patron ‘saved dozens and dozens of liv’ by tacklg the Club Q gunman, an owner Brenner for The New York TimCOLORADO SPRINGS — The patron who tackled a gunman si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs on Saturday night prevented a adly shootg om beg far worse, the club’s owners said on Sunday. ”After the 2016 mass shootg at Pulse, a crowd gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where 49 people were killed, Mr.