Tag Archives: Pulse Massacre

49 SOMBER BELLS: More Than 5000 Gather In Downtown Orlando To Mourn LGBT Victims [VIDEO]

From the Orlando Sentinel: By the thousands, they came – to grieve, to celebrate, to connect, to declare: “Love wins.” A massive two-hour vigil for the victims of the Pulse Orlando nightclub shootings Monday evening spilled over the lawn of the Plaza at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center near City Hall, as thousands gathered to cry, embrace, remember and …

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HYPOCRISY EXPLOSION: Ted Cruz Says Liberals Are Afraid To Denounce Muslims That Want To Kill Gays

Last fall Ted Cruz stood smiling on the stage with a Christian pastor who had just called for exterminating homosexuals in the name of White Jesus. But somehow that scandal seems to have slipped his feeble mind. From his Facebook page: For all the Democrats who are loud champions of the gay and lesbian community whenever there is a culture …

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Rachel Maddow On History Of Attacks At Gay Bars: A Community That Been Forged In Literal Fire [VIDEO]

Last night Rachel Maddow put the Pulse massacre in historical context, recounting some of the more infamous attacks on gay bars since Stonewall. Mentioned are the Upstairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, the Atlanta bombing of a lesbian bar, and others that may not be as well known to you. This is an important and sobering LGBT history lesson. Watch …

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ORLANDO: FBI Shown Evidence That Killer Used Gay Dating App To Scout Popular Nightclub Locations

ABC News reports: Kevin West said the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, contacted him three months ago through a dating app called Jack’d. “When he first contacted me, he was saying things like, ‘What clubs are popping and things of that sort, what are good places to go?'” West said. “And I remember telling him, ‘Oh, you can just look it …

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Tennessee Republican: Screw The Orlando Victims, Now I’m Giving Away TWO Of The Gun That Killed Them

Talking Points Memo reports: A Republican lawmaker from Tennessee is unwavering in his plan to give away AR-15 rifles, the same firearm used in Sunday’s deadly attack in Orlando, Florida, as prizes at a fundraiser later this month. State Rep. Andy Holt wrote a lengthy post on his Facebook page Monday bashing the media for asking if he’d still give …

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Paris Mourns Orlando’s LGBT Victims

Tonight the Eiffel Tower has been illuminated in the rainbow colors in solidarity with Orlando’s LGBT victims. The American flag is being projected onto a giant glowing balloon hanging from the middle level.

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Orlando Sentinel: Regular Patrons Say They Saw The Killer At Pulse Nightclub At Least A Dozen Times

From the Orlando Sentinel: At least four regular customers of Pulse, the nightclub where the massacre took place, said Monday that they believe they had seen Mateen there before. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” said Ty Smith, who …

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JetBlue Offers Free Flights To Victims’ Loved Ones

From JetBlue’s website: Like many of you, we continue to watch reports of the Orlando nightclub shooting with great sadness. Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones. This weekend’s events are felt by all of our 19,000 crewmembers, many of whom live in, work from and travel through Orlando – one of our focus cities – at …

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Jimmy Somerville Sings For Orlando Victims [VIDEO]

From the Scotsman: Scots singer Jimmy Somerville has paid an emotional tribute to the victims of a gun attack at a gay club in Orlando. In a video message on his Facebook page, Somerville said he was feeling “sad inside” and “angry” in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history. Singing lyrics to his 1984 Top …

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LONDON: Thousands Mourn Orlando Victims [VIDEO]

You may want a tissue for the videos. Gay Star News: Thousands of Londoners squeezed into Soho’s Old Compton Street this evening to attend a vigil in memory of those attacked and killed in the Orlando gay nightclub massacre. The vigil was arranged by local bars and community groups – and echoes dozens of similar vigils that have been taking …

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ORLANDO RESPONSE: Hillary Clinton Calls For Stricter Gun Control And Ban On Assault Weapons [VIDEO]

From the New York Daily News: Drawing a stark contrast between herself and Donald Trump and renewing her calls for stricter gun control in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Hillary Clinton declared Monday that “weapons of war have no place on our streets.” “It’s essential we stop terrorists from getting the tools they need to …

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Dumbest Gay Man On The Internet Fails Yet Again

Earlier today extremist blogger Jim Hoft, widely known in the progressive blogosphere as “the dumbest man on the internet,” came out in a Breitbart column in which he urged gays to “come home to the Republican party.” This afternoon Hoft gleefully reported the “breaking” news that a group called Phoenix LGBT has endorsed Donald Trump. As evidence of this endorsement …

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: I Took Down That Tweet To Stop All Of Your Hateful Comments And Lies

Early yesterday morning viciously anti-LGBT Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweeted the above image shortly after news broke about the Orlando massacre. About seven hours later, after the tweet was denounced by many news outlets, it was deleted. A spokesman for Patrick then claimed that it had been written days earlier and had been scheduled in advance to post when …

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Christian Extremists Celebrate Orlando Massacre

From Christian activist Walid Shoebat: The only ones moaning over fifty gays slaughtered are liberals, idiots and gay lovers. The U.S. supports Muslim terrorists in Syria so long they get at Russia and Bashar Al-Assad and kill Syrian soldiers. And now I am supposed to only care when gays are killed and I am supposed to jump up and down? …

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Alex Jones: Orlando Attack Was A False Flag That Obama Let Happen So He Can Grab Your Guns

You knew this was coming. Via Media Matters: Conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump ally Alex Jones claimed President Obama let the tragic mass shooting at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse happen because he wants to ban “your speech” and “guns.” Trump and his campaign surrogates have been heavily courting Jones and his audience during the presidential campaign. Jones hosts The …

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Extremist Blogger Jim Hoft Comes Out In Wake Of Attack: It’s Time For Gays To Come Home To The GOP

Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft, widely known as “the dumbest man on the internet,” comes out today in the wake of the Orlando massacre. He writes at Breitbart: I came out in the 1980s to family and friends during the AIDS epidemic. I saw a lot of friends get sick. I saw a lot of friends die. I went to …

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BRITAIN: Gay Journo Walks Off Set When Hosts Won’t Acknowledge Homophobia As Root Of Attack [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: Journalist Owen Jones stormed out of a live television interview about the mass killing in Orlando in protest at his interviewer’s refusal to name the shooting an attack on LGBT people. “At the end of the day this was a homophobic hate crime, as well as terrorism and it has to be called out, as I have …

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John Oliver On Orlando: This Just Hurts [VIDEO]

Entertainment Weekly recaps: John Oliver opened Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight by commenting on the mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub on early Sunday morning that left 50 people dead. “As I’m sure you know by now, at least 50 people were killed by a gunman at a gay nightclub in what is being described as a …

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Orlando Sentinel: Our Community Will Heal

The Orlando Sentinel today published a stark front page free of the usual jumble of news items. Instead, this editorial appears: Words cannot adequately convey the depth of the horror and grief in Central Florida in the wake of what now ranks as the worst mass shooting in American history. Orlando now tragically sits atop a list of infamy, sharing …

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Barry Walters: Why Gay Clubs Are Our Refuge

Veteran music journalist Barry Walters has penned an excellent take on why our nightclubs have always been a refuge for the LGBT community. From Billboard Magazine: Since Stonewall and well before, gay clubs have been our schools, our places of worship. Nightclubs are where we’ve long learned to unlearn hate, and learn to become and love our real selves. They’re …

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