LGBT News Orlando Gunman May Have Been Gay: Self-Hatred

Oh my. o.o

 

Wow.....

 

That's exactly what my sister-in-law said. She said yesterday she believes he's gay and closeted and is just struggling with his sexual orientation because Muslims have a harder time accepting LGBT people. She actually has a gay cousin (in a relationship and engaged) that is gay and from a Muslim family.

 

Who'd have thought that self-hatred would've gone this far...

 

I can't say I'm surprised, and that upsets me a bit....was he jealous that those other men had something he did not, and couldn't at that time, have perhaps?

 

It would pain me to know it were true. I'd hate to deal with the knowledge that defensive homophobia had a part to play in this.

Our visibility needs to provide other people with safety.

 

I'm not at all surprised. My personal experience is that people who in general obsess about gays (either in positive or negative manner) are not entirely straight.

Though I guess it could be possible that he went there before to plan for the attacks but if he had a dating profile and he went there for years that kind of undermines that hypothesis. In either case his local mosque has history of preaching death to gays so I find his imam's comments and condolences hypocritical.

 

It's very convinient to twist things this way. How dumb could people be to believe that? Official info is that he was married(to a woman, no kidding!), he did travel to the Middle East(twice!) for hajj and he was checked few times for connections with islamic extremists. It is the islamic holy month now, so how many coincidences does someone need to believe the obvious?

I am again convinced on how silly(though there's another word I'd like to use) the LGBT community could be. It is so easy to blame it to internalised homophobia. Placing the blame anywhere else would just be too troublesome for the government and the citizens.

 

This doesn't actually surprise me at all. Yesterday morning when we first saw the interview with the father my husband and I turned to each other and said "how long do you think it will take for it to come out that he was a closet case?". Brings the victim total one highe in my book.

 

I agree. If people within the community feel that they are accepted by their loved ones they are less likely to have the kind of emotional issues that lead to self-harm or violence against another person. Us being ourselves will lessen the ignorance that allows people to be intolerant.

 

I dont think it justify what he did in any way. You dont go killing people for self hatered. You do it because ur messed up in the head and thats what this terrorist is.

 

First of all, no one is suggesting that he did it because of self-hatred although it sure was a contributing factor. It might be that if his parents were more tolerant of gays he might have chosen some other target but it is crucial to realize that (as far as I know) no other self-hating gay guy has gone to killing spree to commit extended suicide. Millions of gays live with self-hatred across the world yet they don't become mass shooters. Radical Islam is the main cause of this tragedy and no one can say otherwise.

Second, just because a guy is married to a woman and has kids does not mean that he couldn't be gay or bi.

 

I'm not shocked if this is true, but I can already tell what kind of shit homophobes are going to start with this.

 

Could be the pressure of being of a religion that doesn't tolerate his sexuality, having a father that holds those views and leading a double life got to him? Maybe he thought he could "redeem" himself in the eyes of Allah by shooting up the club.

 

It's already started on other sites I post on. Or at least, some of the homophobes are claiming that the "gay agenda" tried to silence the fact that he was gay. Even though it came out yesterday, a day after the shooting, so I don't see how any "silencing" was taking place.

That said, we don't know for sure if he was gay, but it's seeming likely. He was obviously raised by someone who rejected homosexuality (his father was quoted recently as saying "it's up to God to punish homosexuals" almost as if he considered his son's actions well-intentioned but ultimately misguided, which is hideous). It's very possible that someone could've taken self-hatred to such an extreme.

 

I heard that he has been checking out Disney and the Pulse