Gay bars were a safe space, but what do one do when the place meant as a haven om the world's attacks is, stead, a target?
Contents:
- ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
- WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
- PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB
- MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
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. * pulse nightclub orlando gay *
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. — A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another.
WHAT MEANS TO REMEMBER THE PULSE SHOOTG THE ERA OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
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11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry. Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para.
PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB
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Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.
MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
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ORLANDO, FL - JUNE 13: Law enforcement officials vtigate at the Pulse gay nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on June 13, 2016 Orlando, Florida.
When the world awoke two years ago to the news that a gunman had killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, one immediate qutn was: Why that place?
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Durg the attack, gunman Omar Mateen lled 911 and pledged allegiance to the lear of the vilently anti-gay Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a group that releas propaganda vios of gay men beg thrown off buildgs. The reason he chose Pulse seemed obv: he hated gay days after the attack, on June 16, 2016, Print Barack Obama vised survivors Orlando and livered a statement.
THE GAY BAR AS SAFE SPACE HAS BEEN SHATTERED
”A few days earlier, printial ndidate Donald Tmp said at a rally, “A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn.
In their closg statement, ernment prosecutors admted that there was no evince to suggt that Mateen knew that Pulse was a gay leav another qutn: How uld the Pulse attack be a hate crime agast gay people if the perpetrator chose randomly? In particular, mors that Mateen was a closeted gay man and had targeted the club out of first wife, Sora Yufiy, suggted an terview wh Time magaze, wh ltle evince other than his penchant for bodybuildg and mirror-gazg, that Omar Mateen uld have been gay. ”Univisn aired an terview wh a disguised man named “Miguel” who lled Mateen “100 percent” gay, but there were no electronic rerds of their alleged Grdr-facilated renzvo, and other news outlets st doubt on his Salman, wife of Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, a Facebook profile FacebookJt hours after the shootg began, Salman was an FBI terrogatn room.