The June 12 attack that killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, sparked a war over wording. The debate is about more than semantics, and it extends far beyond the U.S.

A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, on April 30, 1975.
The June 12 attack that killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, sparked a war over wording. The debate is about more than semantics, and it extends far beyond the U.S.