“He just wanted to fit in and no one liked him,” he said. “We went to a few gay bars with him, and I was not out at the time, so I declined his offer,” the former classmate said. “But he did feel very strongly about homosexuality.”Ī former police academy classmate of Mateen’s said in 2006 Mateen asked him out. “When we had gotten married, he confessed to me about his past-that was recent at that time-and that he very much enjoyed going to clubs and the nightlife,” said Yusufiy, who divorced Omar Mateen in 2011 and said he was abusive and unstable. “So, I feel like it’s a side of him or a part of him that he lived but probably didn’t want everybody to know about.” “He never personally or physically made any indication while we were together, of that,” Yusufiy continued.
