[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by ThriceShy

But the perp is apparently gay. So is it still an LGBT attack?

Gay people can be some of the most self-loathing people out there sometimes so I would not be surprised if he hated who he was and attacked anyone that was like him as the Religious nature in him still sees it as a sin.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Gay people can be some of the most self-loathing people out there sometimes so I would not be surprised if he hated who he was and attacked anyone that was like him as the Religious nature in him still sees it as a sin.

That is a really good point.

He also it appears had sympathies with the likes of IS who despise the LGBT communities.
For me I agree with you, it should be seen as both a terrorist and a hate crime planned and executed against the LGBT community, in a building where he would expect only those probably from the gay community to be.

The main thing is so many lives lost and so many injured in a horrific incident where the victims were intended to be only from the LGBT gay community.

I honestly cannot see at all how the LGBT issue can be isolated from this and it only be termed a terrorist attack.