“The younger gay community has never really witnessed anything as devastating on the community as the older community did with HIV,” said Raymond Michael Sharpe, 55, a bartender at another Orlando gay club. The massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida was seen as a jarring reminder of the discrimination they can still face, giving some renewed cause to march through city streets on Sunday in the Gay Pride events that fill the June calendar. What compelled Omar Mateen to kill people dancing and mingling at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in the early hours of Sunday in the deadliest shooting spree in US history is still being investigated. Obama evoked the important role that bars and nightclubs have played in gay American life in his sombre remarks on the attack at Pulse. But the killer’s father told NBC News his son had become angry after seeing two men kissing in Miami recently.

Source: Hindustan Times June 13, 2016 06:40 UTC