Here again I differ from the narrative. I’m not at all sure this guy targeted it because it was a gay club. It was a club he knew thoroughly, including its proscriptions against guns. He had it cased thoroughly. That he went to it as a patron is besides the point.
I should have realized that given the masochistic, self-pitying nature of gay men, that they would embrace this event to their bosom like an old queen with a bootleg recording of Judy at The Palace.
He, himself, was most likely a closeted gay. It has been reported that he used gay dating sites and apps. A former classmate of his said he had been asked out by him. Hie ex wife speculated that he was gay as well.
He could not reconcile his gay self and his religious self, so he attacked the gay club, knowing it was a defenseless place and died a ‘hero’ martyr for Allah................