While authorities have not confirmed if the nightclub was targeted specifically because it was a gay club, the attack has been keenly felt by the LGBT community. history, and injured 53 - struck during Pride Month, which commemorates the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the gay rights movement more broadly. The attack - in which a gunman killed 50 people, making it the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. Meanwhile, security has been increased at LGBT landmarks and events in cities across America.
With sorrow, anger and expressions of unity, the LGBT community across the world is mourning Sunday's deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando. A couple hugs as people gather in front of a makeshift memorial in New York to remember the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.
