Eerily, Pulse also hosted a mostly Latinx crowd the night of the shooting. The terrorist attack on Pulse-Orlando’s equivalent of Neighbours or R Place-struck one of the essential parts of the LGBTQ experience in the United States.Īt Neighbours, which has been targeted by several arson attacks in recent years, I spoke to patrons starting to filter in for the club’s weekly Noche Latino. They are sanctuaries for a community that for many years existed only inside those bars. Gay bars are the home of the gay-rights movement, which began with a riot at one, the Stonewall Inn in New York City.