Just a few days before the La Madame shooting, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a constitutional reform that cleared a path for legislators to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. And what's more, many politicians continue to talk about the event as an attack on the general American people, instead of noting that gunman Omar Mateen targeted LGBTQ people specifically. Similarly, following the Orlando shooting, there continues to be debate over whether the massacre should be termed terrorism or a hate crime. When the secretary of public security pointed to a 'territorial fight over drug sales,' according to TeleSur, he drew criticism from LGBTQ activists who accused him of overlooking the inherently homophobic nature of the attack.
