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. 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.
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 *
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. 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.
* 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.
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 *
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).
Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege. * gay shootings 2016 *
"Isis [another name for IS] are also profsnal when to trackg gay people. "They are tryg to track down every gay man.