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Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege.

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ATLANTANS REFLECT ON 1997 BOMBG FOLLOWG ORLANDO GAY CLUB MASSACRE

Atlantans reflect on 1997 bombg followg Orlando gay club massacre * gay club 1997 *

Hearg that a terrorist had gunned down 50 people si a gay nightclub Orlando Sunday, bter memori flared Beverly two s ago, she was on the receivg end of a terrorist's hate when her gay and lbian nightclub Atlanta was bombed.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS

The Orlando massacre, she said, remd her that the hate remas for gay and lbian people, along wh the threat of physil vlence. She was Geia’s first openly gay elected official. ”For years after the Othersi bombg, Woolard llected data on hate crim agast the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.

AdvertisementSKIP Thornell/Associated PrsJune 13, 2016The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny is no stranger to the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy that set off rts and helped touch off the morn gay-rights movement to the 1998 murr of Matthew Shepard to near-epimic levels of vlence agast transgenr women, the muny has been marked by flash of the massacre at a gay club Orlando, Fla., that left 49 ad and 53 others jured, Richard Kim, the executive edor of The Natn, wrote on Sunday that gay bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. And sometim those sanctuari have e unr are a few signifint Orleans, 1973Thirty-two people died when a fire swept through the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, on June 24, 1973.

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