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
• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
• BT GAY BAR ORLANDO - PULSE NIGHTCLUB

PULSE WAS MORE THAN JT A GAY CLUB: IT WAS A PLACE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HI

But this week, the cy is also memorializg a years ago today, a gunman opened fire Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando, killg 49 people and woundg more than 50.

Experience fun and fantasy at this premier gay nightclub as you vis three distct worlds — The Lounge, The Jewel Box and The Adonis Room. For ne years, Pulse has been Orlando's premier gay nightclub, bar and lounge; featurg three distct worlds for guts to vis. Upon enterg Pulse, the iends joed their chosen "fay, " a term members of the LGBT muny often e to scribe this club, one of the most popular gay venu central Florida, was more than jt a place to buy a few drks and flirt wh members of the same sex (or whomever we found attractive that night).

On the back pat, I once had a iendly argument wh a gay man who said we “were no different than straight guys.

50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

” Pulse, and other predomantly gay plac, beme opportuni for figure thgs out—who we were, how we wanted others to see as Saturday night wound down–around 2 A. History happened at a gay club Central Florida on Lat night. As iends and fay of the victims trawled for answers, they were met by more homophobia and hate—a reason gay clubs such as Pulse are still important to the LGBT muny.

So he equented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studd drag shows and bachata-sountracked “Lat Nights. “What happened at Pulse was … kd of labeled as a gay issue, when realy wasn’t.

But before “Pulse” me to mean “one of the adlit mass shootgs US history, one that primarily targeted people of lor at a gay nightclub, ” Pulse was synonymo wh home. Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound. Gay nightclub.

THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED

- A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday at a Florida nightclub -- which scrib self as "Orlando's hottt gay bar" -- left an timated 50 people ad, cludg the gunman, and more than 50 jured, officials say.

Correctn append, June 15 If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to sow terror the LGBT muny, he uldn’t have chosen a more apt target.

But the tail of havg happened not jt to gay people (by a gunman whose father has spoken out about his son’s dislike of gay men) but at a gay bar cuts to the very heart of a margalized group’s fears. For s, gay bars have functned not merely as waterg hol but as gatherg plac and facto muny centers.

BT GAY BAR ORLANDO - PULSE NIGHTCLUB

Sunday morng’s attack didn’t jt cut short dozens of liv; also tore a hole the very agile sense of secury for gay people Ameri. Read more: What to Know About the Pulse Nightclub Shootg Orlando Gay bars have occupied their functn for s (a Bourbon Street tablishment claims to be Ameri’s olst, havg operated sce the end of Prohibn), and have been the object of srn and ocsnal vlence throughout that time. That vlence, like the burng of New Orleans’s Upstairs Lounge, killg 32, June 1973, only served to emphasize the importance of strongholds where gay people uld, y, drk, but also socialize among themselv and velop their own social mor.

In an cint so famo that Barack Obama mentned almost offhandly his send Ingural Addrs, the police raid on the Stonewall Inn June 1969 helped crystallize exactly what the gay movement was up agast—and tly ma a movement.

Gay people have fought, through recent history, for cremental steps towards equaly, and that fight began at the muny center.