At least 49 people are killed and dozens jured by a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando. What exactly happened?
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- ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
- WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY: 50 SLA AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history. * gay shootings 2016 *
An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said.
WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY: 50 SLA AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
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 shootings 2016 *
While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said. A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
One of the worst mass shootgs US history claimed 49 liv at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. * gay shootings 2016 *
She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS.
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Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando. Omar Mateen, a rint of Fort Pierce, Fla., a cy about 120 om Orlando, parked his van outsi Pulse, a gay nightclub.
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.
A gay club Orlando was attacked Sunday morng the adlit mass shootg morn U.S. history. The attack durg Pri month, when LGBT events are planned across the untry. * gay shootings 2016 *
"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.
Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege. * gay shootings 2016 *
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).