It’s quite strange we didn’t hear about this story until recently, considering our job description includes scouring the Internet every five minutes for breaking news revolving around gay life.
Back in May, at least seven people were reportedly murdered in a mass shooting at a Mexican gay bar; a crime that was initially reported to be “territorial” and drug-related, according to police.
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According to Pink News, news of the Veracruz attack “barely managed to travel past the state’s border.” But in the aftermath of Sunday’s Orlando massacre, more details about the incident are becoming known.
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According to South American publication Telesur:
In the early morning May 22, gunmen entered La Madame, a gay club in Veracruz, and proceeded to fire into the crowd of approximately 180 people.
“In total, seven people were killed and at least 12 injured in the attack.”
The article, entitled “The Massacre at a Mexican Gay Bar That No One Talked About,” argues authorities have chosen to ignore the “homophobic aspect” of the crime, which no doubt explains why the story has kept such a low (i.e., barely existent) profile.
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Speaking to El Noreste, an employee at the club says she saw an armed group enter the establishment and begin openly shooting into the crowd of over 200 revelers.
Luis Manuel Rivera Aguilar, the uncle of victim Luis Donaldo Rivera Calderon, told Sinembargo:
They opened the doors violently and drew their guns. There were shouts. They had no mercy. Bullets ricocheted everywhere. The white tiles were stained red. Those who wanted to escape slipped in puddles of blood. It was a slaughterhouse.”
Police claim they’re searching for the attackers, but as of yet, no arrests have been made.
GC1985
Well what happened here was related to the cartels. This violence has plagued straight nightclubs too and even beach resorts. Tourist hotspots have also been hit. By the way, there has been shootings related to cartel violence at gay bars before.
Anyways I will be taking an indefinite break from this site. Queerty needs to clean up its act and ban certain people before I will consider returning. There are too many bigots on here and arguing with them all the time is just a waste of time. It a was a shame because this site once had a knowledgeable set of commentators. Now all we have are a few unpleasant parasites who spread their false right wing dogma and hatred towards minorities. I wish those who are arguing against these fools all the best. It really isn’t worth it in the end.
Billy Budd
@GC1985: Please don’t give up just because of the idiots. There are idiots everywhere on the internet and it is difficult to get rid of them. I won’t give up posting because of them.
martinbakman
Kwear-Tea may have been too busy reporting on Zac Effron to let us know about this tragedy.
Kangol
@GC1985: I agree, don’t leave because of the right-wing gang. I let them speak their peace, and when some promote what’s clearly hom0phobic, transphobic, r@cist and sexist discourse I call it out. We need your voice on here. I know it’s tough, but try not to let them get you down.
GC1985
@Kangol: There are too make double accounts and fakes. Including one that is a fake or my prior username. They have also posted defamatory statements and outright libel.
I work too many hours to even try arguing with them. Sometimes 55-60 hours a week (love overtime). Too little time to argue with trolls who clearly have no life. I just rather not anymore.
GC1985
@GC1985: *too many double accounts
iggy6666
@GC1985: oh bullshit. You’re the aggressor ninety percent of the time. And for being so busy at work you seem to have lots of time to saturate the comments section.
Tobi
@GC1985: You are such a hypocrite. You’ve been spewing hate across this and other websites for years, calling people things like “Nazi” and “paedophile” just because they don’t agree with your often juvenile and irrelevant comments. I even got sent a link to a site where you were trolling ebola victims, that was disgusting, just completely despicable. You keep getting caught out lying, you assume false identities of other commentators here, insert yourself in situations like the Orlando tragedy and then make out you’re identified with the victims. It’s like you’re suffering Munchausen-by-Proxy. You really need to do something more productive with all the time you’re wasting trolling. Why not get yourself an education for a start? If you did, then you wouldn’t have to work 55-60 hours a week, like a busboy on minimum wage, just to make ends meet. You might even be able to afford to live a life out there in the real world for a change.
Giancarlo86
@GC1985: Bye Felicia
GC1985
Here they are on display… Embarrassing.
Sorry guys… Enjoy these slanderous trolls.
I make close to $70,000 a year because of overtime. I am doing overtime because my work has a major backlog that needs to be cleared. I have both BA and MA degree.
Don’t assume sh*t please. Don’t assume anything.
Have a nice life, tobi.
Giancarlo86
@GC1985: You are 31 years old. You have a BA and a MA. You are in a job where you get paid overtime. You work 60 hours a week. You only make $70,000. #fail
iggy6666
@GC1985: EMBARRASSING is getting caught lying about past residency then trying to recover from it by further insulting others intelligence…..sorry. people aren’t that naive
GC1985
@Giancarlo86: You work for $12,000 a year. So quit lying troll. Dumb f**king weasel.
Seriously who the hell are you?
GC1985
@iggy6666: You and who? Some stupid sh*thread account you control? Fuck you you little idiotic fucker.
GC1985
You trolls are such big men. You respond all hours of the day. You don’t even work. You just live with your parents on a soiled matter.
I am done here with you creeps. I never lied about a fucking thing. I make more than you and are far more successful.
GC1985
*soiled mattress.
Gone with the wind. To hell with you losers. You are on here 24/7. Better working hard than living with your parents mooching.
Thanks to those who supported me. Kudos to you.
scotshot
@GC1985: Leaving only emboldens the Trolls
iggy6666
Firstly. I’d like to apologize to those reading. I’m not normally this petty but Giancarlo was caught lying with proof confirming it, yet still insists on playing victim of false allegations. Proof is in recent posts…
@GC1985: lol. Gian… Gian…. you and your tantrums. Funny you accuse others of being on here all day when you respond quite often with multiple rants in succession(see above) to various people around the clock. Which is probably the reason you were caught lying…
Generally I’m very modest. But since you boast of 70g a year. I’ve got you beat by almost twice that. Own my house. And sleep on a stain free mattress! Is that not normal or is stain free a luxury in life these days?? Age is not a factor btw we were both born in 1985. But of course I must be lying as no one can one up people like yourself….
People like you will never be DONE. Regardless of a response. I know damn well you read this. Koodus to you if can resist replying. Have a great day!
MyDadPulledOut
Mexicans like any barbaric caveman society does not like gays.
iggy6666
@MyDadPulledOut: Come on man!! Don’t generalize all Mexicans with cartel.
Armiya
Wow. Something shitty happens and all you catty histrionic children is trade barbs and slam one another. Unbelievable.
Tobi
@scotshot: I keep wondering who you remind me of…. http://d.pr/1hsbI … and then I realised, every time @GC1985 comments, you comment almost immediately after, often within minutes… http://d.pr/avlQ It must be one of those weird coincidences that just happens again-and-again-and-again, huh?!
onthemark
@scotshot: @Billy Budd: @Kangol:
I’m definitely a fan, but don’t worry about GC1985. It may be true that he works 60-70 hours a week but that hardly matters since he posts from work all the time. Since he lives in L.A. I just hope he doesn’t text while driving. He even posted last New Year’s Eve at literally 15 minutes before midnight PST. (Google can provide the cite; he CLAIMS to have been at a party, which if true is actually worse, of course.)
GC1985 will be back before the end of the week! He’s done this before. (Sept. 2015.) Like “Brokeback Mountain” he just can’t quit us. 🙂
Masc Pride
The Telesur article doesn’t make mention of why the LGBT activists claim it was a homophobic attack. Violence is common place there, so there has to be more proof than just the fact that it was a gay bar.
@iggy6666: Thank you! That thing is the biggest troll here. I love how he’s trying to act reasonable now. I would say good riddance, but we all know he’s not going anywhere. What will he do with all his days and nights?
onthemark
Internet addiction – it’s a real thing! Maybe GC1985’s bosses sent him to rehab:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/
http://netaddiction.com/faqs/
onthemark
Go figure – it’s an actual “12 step” thing too:
http://www.12step.com/internet-addiction
o.codone
TAKE A BREAK ALL RIGHT GIO, A PERMANENT BREAK. NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR ONE MORE WORD OF YOUR HAPPY HORSE^&%$. All you do is post, constantly, I MEAN CONSTANTLY, every THREAD, OVER AND OVER AND OVER. SOMETIMES HALF THE COMMENTS ARE FROM YOU, JUST YOU. you monopolize EVERY SINGLE THREAD, YOU NAME CALL, YOU THREATEN PEOPLE and you lie all the time. OF COURSE YOU WERE THROWN OFF HERE BEFORE. Get the fu ck off of Queerty for good. Get yourself a fuc king life. Good riddance you pu ke. dON’T EVER COME BACK BECAUSE EVERYONE ON HERE HATES YOUR FAT FUCKING HILLARY ASS-KISSING IDEAS. and, YOU MAKE EVERYBODY NERVOUS WITH YOUR THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND RETALIATION, YOUR NAME CALLING AND YOUR INANE IDIOT RANTS. IT’S CREEPY TO THREATEN PEOPLE IN A PUBLIC WAY LIKE THAT AND YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO STOP DOING IT. TIME TO gO BITCH. GO! DON’T bother answering this post because i don’t want to hear anything else you want to say. ever.
Louis
My heart breaks for these poor souls as well as Orlando and drug related or not this person also targeted a gay bar just like the murderer did in Orlando that is never a coincidence.
I am very angry and disappointed that the MEDIA did not choose to cover this tragedy because it is as equally relevant, significant, and important as what happened in Orlando.
Im so tired of this I just wish this hate could stop in this world and the love could start its senseless and its endless and it needs to change period.
RIP to those 7 precious victims and all those who were injured and now scarred emotionally and mentally from this tragedy.
This has GOT TO STOP gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it needs to be eradicated period.
Louis
@MyDadPulledOut: Thats like saying all Muslims are terrorists its a generalization and stereotype and its unfair to put an entire race or entire religion or entire community of people into the same category.
You cant make blanket statements like that it only creates intolerance, misunderstandings, paranoia,and incites more hatred, ire, and anger towards people who already get enough of all the above as Americans as it is in this country.
Tobi
@Louis: “You cant make blanket statements like that…” No. You’re right. I’m sure there were a few Nazis who didn’t want to all the jews gassed either. Jeez.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: Look every one. Reubenana is leaving once again. Remember when she claimed thats who she was about two years ago and how her boyfriend loved to take pictures of her and put them on the net and just on and on about how cute she was? The pics of Reubenana are still up (the best ones are on Yahoo but Google works just as well) but that SURE as hell aint her, ol’ bird legged ass gc85 whose fame stops at Queerty.
Honey, before you go tell us about that little over sixty day hiatus that started right before Christmas of 2015 and ended right at March of this year. It sounded like a jail sentence (the time lapse) and you were hellbent to make up for lost rants, Leaving your ass, you will be back before daybreak.
Louis
@Tobi: You intentionally used an extreme example to be condescending and rude and that onus is on you and no one but you.
My point that you conveniently looked over was that when we make blanket statements like that it creates more intolerance and hatred for these people and their families more then they already endure in this country and that is not FAIR.
This had nothing to do with Nazis you were just being rude plain and simple.
Tobi
@Louis: I now live in a predominantly muslim enclave in London, I have a mosque at the end of my street. We have muslim MPs, Lords and even a muslim mayor. There are 6 state-funded muslim schools and 150+ that are privately run. The one local to me has the children and teachers segregated and even the youngest girls all wear the hijab. Ofsted constantly complains that it focuses almost exclusively on islamic studies to the detriment of the children’s eduction. We have 85+ sharia courts operating here in the UK. I interact with ordinary muslims on a daily basis. I can tell you this, 99%+ wouldn’t raise a hand against us. 99%+ also wouldn’t raise their voices in protest against anyone who did do us harm as they are constantly being preached to that we would be better off dead.
Louis
@Tobi: Then dont allow those negatives to skew your perspective of the rest of them.
The sad thing is there are extremists all over this planet and race and religion are only a part of it but we must remember that not all of these people are the same and many rail against these insane and extreme mentalities regarding us.
Believe me I understand what you mean ive had many divisive and unfortunately sickening conversations with some who are Muslim who spewed all kinds of cruel things towards me for being gay.
But I try my best to not allow those people make me feel that that is how all of them act.
I do understand your point and now I understand it better I respect that point of view.
I simply wish we could all live in solidarity and it just pains me to see all this division in this country due to the cruel and callous acts that some commit in this country.
We need a lot more love in this world and far less hate hate has never done anything but kill and hurt.
Ty for elaborating on what you were trying to say earlier I feel its important to have an open dialogue a civil dialogue especially within this community.
Its a good way to understand one another better and find a common ground without being insulting or hateful towards one another.
We can rise above that we are better then that thats what the heterosexual bigots do best sadly but we are better then that.