The several days of parties and festivities culminate with a number of key events the final weekend of DC. in late May over Memorial Day Weekend each year. The other site hit during the attack was next door's Herr Nilsen Jazz Club, where revellers described being hit with flying shards of glass. One of the nations largest African-American Gay Pride events, attracting more than 50,000 participants, DC Black Pride takes place in Washington, D.C. Their 2022 event features both an indoor and outdoor. One woman described having to play dead to avoid the shooter's gunfire. Distrkt C brings the worlds top DJs and performers to Washington DC for their Pride party. Sunday's Pride Parade wraps a month marking the anniversary of the June 28th, 1969, Stonewall uprising, sparked by a police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan and a catalyst of the modern LGBTQ movement.
'Let there be no doubt, we are one community, we are a diverse community.'įrench President Emmanuel Macron slammed the 'barbarism of the Islamist terrorist' in a tribute tweet.Īfter the deadly melee in central Oslo on Saturday, a man was filmed being wrestled to the ground by police with the help of revellers. Then it is our responsibility that no one other than the person behind the attack is responsible. Støre said yesterday: 'I know that many Muslims are scared and despairing. A gunman early Saturday opened fire at a gay bar in the Norwegian capital and killed 2 people.
Matapour's first mental health diagnosis was made in the 1990s, with his listed conditions including paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD and 'delusions'. The London Pub gay nightclub in central Oslo is pictured on a map of the Norwegian capital