it's a strictly homophobic attack only if you view it in isolation. Now it could be that this guy was a one-off nutter with his own insecurities. But then I also think about the pattern of attacks on nightclubs over the last 10-15 years - the attack on Bali, the foiled attack on the ministry of sound, the attack on the bataclan in Paris (either directly ordered by jihadists or outsourced to local psychos) then a pattern emerges of a repudiation of liberalism by people brainwashed by islamism. Victims could be gay, straight, black, whatever - the idea of people drinking alcohol, wearing revealing tops, flirting, enjoying themselves in a 'decadent' way is seen as deeply offensive to people with a particularly literal view of Islam. The Afghan father of the Orlando killer said that he felt gay people had sinned and desrved what they got - it all adds up to a pattern of thinking imo. You get christian nutcases in the US too who going on shooting sprees and talk nonsense but that feels different, more localised and more connected to US society problems and because there is no international dimension to it, the sense that it could happen anywhere on earth. BOTH need to be confronted wherever possible but I fear the likes of ISIS a lot more.