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Utter horror in Orlando – 50 killed in gay club massacre – 53 more injured
Went to sleep last night after a wonderful day at LA Pride and woke up to this absolute horror. 50 people were killed and 53 injured early Sunday morning in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. A male gunman opened fire on the crowded nightclub with an assault rifle, sending patrons fleeing. The suspect was killed after engaging with S.W.A.T. CNN has identified the suspect as Omar Saddiqui Mateen. Please go to Gay Star News where my colleagues are posting updates.
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FAEN says:
Absolutely gutted. My emotions are all over the place. So sick of religious bigotry, ALL religious bigotry. If you don’t like gay people kissing look the fuck away! There is a donation page on Joe My God. Pleas give whatever you can for the victims.
K. Martinez says:
Senseless! My thoughts and prayers for those injured and hanging on and to those families who have lost their loved ones from this tragedy.
Lexxvs says:
We, the LGBBT people, are the “canary in a coal mine”, we are always the first to be targeted when humanist values are undermined. Many Muslims (even many that consider themselves as “moderates”) see homosexuals as something deserving punishment, a stain to clean from a good society at the very least. To instill humanist values on them is hard because they have whether their roots or their inspirations from places where humanism didn’t develop and never was widely accepted by people and therefore by culture (different from the West where even conservative fanatics have at least some notions of how to respect human life, or at least they know what are the big no-no to go, due to syncretism). On that line, millions of migrants in Europe bring something else than themselves, they bring cultural notions, values, perceptions of what is right and what is wrong and how to “fix” what doesn’t fit, even those that are not terrorists or that despise terrorists may agree with the idea that gays (and many, many others) have no place in society. And Europe may be to fearful of hurting religious feelings as to contradict such strong held views on such feeble thing as that small canary (LGBTs). I mention Europe because it has been a huge influence to the world; its vulnerability affects us all. An unlikely alliance in the West (hard conservative Christians and not integrated Muslim) can undo the gains we won with so much effort related to Human Rights for sexual minorities (among many other humanist rights and values) if we do not pay attention.
Larry says:
The news is saying that this was a terror attack but this was pure homophobia at it’s WORST. The killer committed a mass murder not a terror attack. The media coverage of this is so wrong. This massacre was completely fueled by hatred of gay people and nothing else.
Matt says:
As sad as it was, terrorist attack on gay club in Orlando, Fla, should not come as a complete surprise given the level of murderous hatred towards gays by members of the various Islamic radical groups — as if pushing gays off towers to their deaths and posting videos of the killings wasn’t proof enough. Unfortunately, the terrorists’ intentions to a surprisingly, regrettable — even shocking — extent have been significantly underplayed by many politicians at every level, the media and even a good portion of the LGBT Community as well.
FAEN says:
@Lexx-Many Christians(even those that think of themselves as moderate)see homosexuals as something deserving punishment, a stain to clean from a good society at the very least.