Puerto Rican Gay Bar Bombed After Reopening in Hurricane Maria's Wake
Source: Out.com
More than a month after Hurricane Maria first hit Puerto Rico, San Juan's most popular gay club, Circo Bar, has been bombed by a group of masked assailants, according to the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero.
Circo had been operating on a generator when it was attacked Saturday nightreports indicate the weapon was a crude bomb called a Molotov cocktail, or flammable liquid lit inside a bottle. No one was reportedly harmed and no permanent damage was done to the bar. Police have yet to identify the perpetrators.
Puerto Rican activist Pedro Julio Serrano tweeted of the incident that officials need to investigate if there is an angle of hatred, noting homophobia was the likely cause.
Since Maria struck Puerto Rico, at least 51 have died and many more have been left without homes, water, electricity, and other vital resources.
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Read more: https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/11/01/puerto-rican-gay-bar-bombed-after-reopening-hurricane-marias-wake
JI7
(89,251 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)after a storm basically wiped their island off the map? Instead of helping to rebuild it's more violence, more hate. It's seemingly endless.
Initech
(100,080 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)...not cool bro...see what happens when infrastructure is absent? WTF!!!!
so sad that it was directed @ LGBT community ...grrrrr...
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)what religion the people who did this were? Some "iglesia" down there is saluting some people.