22, 2000, a man called Ronald Gay asked directions to a gay bar so he could “shoot some people.” He then walked calmly into the Backstreet Cafe on a Friday night, ordered a beer, and opened fire. He killed one person and injured six. This outrage has destroyed that cosy assumption.” Peter Tatchell, spokesman for the gay rights group OutRage!, said: “A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe haven.They felt able to relax and hold hands without fear of attack.
Just like the Orlando tragedy, the attack happened in a place where people go to socialize and escape. Two people were killed and 81 were injured after a bomb exploded in a gay bar in London’s Soho, on April 30, 1999. The blast happened at the busy Admiral Duncan pub in the center of London’s very gay neighborhood at the start of a holiday weekend. “Like other humans suffering from various disabilities homosexuals should not attempt to infect the rest of society with their particular illness.”
“Homosexuality is an aberrant sexual behavior,” he wrote in a statement. Eric Rudoplh confessed to the Otherside Lounge bombing, as well as the Atlanta Olympics bombings, and abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham. 21, 1997 a nail-laden device exploded at the Otherside Lounge, a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta. They then attacked Buice and two other friends with nail-studded wooden planks, a knife, and steel-toed boots outside Heaven, a gay bar in the city’s heavily LGBT Montrose district. Buice and nine of his friends tried go into several bars in a gay area of Montrose, but they were refused entry. Jon Christopher Buice is serving a 45-year sentence for the killing of Paul Broussard in Houston, Texas on July 4, 1991. In 1996, he was convicted of planning to wage a “war of urban terrorism” and was sentenced to life in prison. They said Nosair, a muslim, attacked the bar because he objected to homosexuality on religious grounds according to report from the New York Times. Nosair for bombing Uncle Charlie’s, planning to blow up New York City landmarks and killing a rabbi in 1990. Five years later, federal prosecutors accused El Sayyid A. The police didn’t immediately arrest anyone for the crime. On Apat Uncle Charlie’s, another gay bar in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, three men were injured in an explosion possibly caused by a pipe bomb. He said he believed gay men were agents of the devil, stalking him and ”trying to steal my soul just by looking at me.” His father, a minister, said in his testimony that Crumpley maybe had a ”a homosexual problem himself.” Crumpley opened fire outside the Ramrod bar in Greenwich Village in New York City.
On the week when the LGBT community celebrated its fourth Gay Pride - four years after Stonewall - an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge at the French Quarter, killing 32 people on June 24, 1973. Until today, the deadliest attack had been in New Orleans, over 40 years ago. Unfortunately, Orlando is hardly the first major deadly attack against an LGBT bar or landmark. Less than two weeks before the country prepares to celebrate one year of marriage equality, the sight of two men kissing on the street is terrifying enough to someone that a hatred-fueled massacre we experienced at the Pulse in Orlando can be the result. The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub - it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds, and to advocate for their civil rights.” RELATED: Violence is No Stranger to the LGBT Community: David Mixner He talked about the unthinkable contrast of the horror that happened in the early hours of Sunday morning in Orlando: “The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. Sunday, Obama addressed the American LGBTQ community and the rest of the nation again to talk about the worst mass shooting in our history.