Omar Mateen’s participation in the LGBTQ+ community that he attacked challenges the simplistic US vs ISIL binary

Popescu, Diana (2016) Omar Mateen’s participation in the LGBTQ+ community that he attacked challenges the simplistic US vs ISIL binary. USApp– American Politics and Policy Blog (15 Jun 2016). Website.

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In the days since Sunday’s tragic mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, it has come to light that the attacker who killed 49 people that night, Omar Mateen, may himself have been part of the LGBTQ+ community. Diana Popescu writes that Mateen’s participation in the LGBTQ+ community both challenges and entrenches the issue’s framing as both an attack against an oppressed minority group and one of the US vs ISIL conflict.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2016 13:54
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:19
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67236

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