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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
what gay terrorist?
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this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mateen
Sexual orientation
Several people who knew Mateen have speculated that he might have been
gay or
bisexual. A male friend of his from 2006, when the two were in
police academy together, said that Mateen went to gay clubs with him and that Mateen once expressed an interest in dating him. Club-goers also recalled Mateen dancing with another man.
[80][81] One classmate, who asked not to be identified by name, said Mateen asked him if he was gay.
[82][83] The FBI has investigated many of these claims but has not found reasonable evidence to establish Mateen's
sexual orientation.
[84]
After the shooting, the
Orlando Sentinel and
The Palm Beach Post reported that at least five regular customers at the
Pulse nightclub had seen Mateen visit the venue on at least a dozen occasions. Sometimes Mateen drank in a corner by himself "and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent."
[26][82] A witness, who recognized Mateen outside the club an hour before the shootings, told investigators that Mateen had been messaging him for about a year using a gay
dating app called
Jack'd. He gave his phone to the FBI for analysis, along with his login details for the application.
[85] A third witness said that Mateen had tried to pick up men at the nightclub.
[86] Dozens of other witnesses, however, told the
Tampa Bay Times that they had never seen Mateen at the nightclub.
[11] A spokesperson for Barbara Poma, the owner of the Pulse nightclub, called the statement that Mateen had been a regular patron "untrue and totally ridiculous".
[87]
Mateen's father Seddique denied that his son was
closeted, saying, "If he was gay, why would he do something like this?"
[83] Two days later, after multiple reports questioned whether Mateen was homosexual, Mateen's father said, "I didn't see any of it and I don't believe that was the case."
[88] However, during an interview with the Brazilian television station SBT Brazil, Mateen's ex-wife claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence.
[89] Following the shooting, Mateen's father stated, in an online video in his native language, "In this month of
Ramadan, the gay and lesbian issue is something that God will punish," though "the servants of God shouldn't have anything to do with it."
[90]
The Wall Street Journal reported Mateen's ex-wife as saying that "[he] did feel strongly about homosexuality."
[83] When asked if Mateen was gay, his ex-wife said she "didn't know" and recalled that he had confessed to going to nightclubs.
[80][81][91] Gawker reported that his ex-wife's fiancé, Marco Dias, told Brazilian media in Portuguese that she had told him that Mateen had "gay tendencies."
[92] He also added that his family and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media."
[89]
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