‘It’s my Florida too’: Pulse shootg survivor Brandon Wolf on beg Black, gay and the anti-Ron DeSantis

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Fifty people were killed and 53 jured after a gunman opened fire at the Pulse gay nightclub the early hours of Sunday morng. Sotomayor worked as the brand manager for Al and Chuck Travel, a pany that specializ vatns for those the gay owner of the pany, Al Fergon, wrote he was at the hospal wh Sotomayor's fay and felt "empty" upon hearg the news. When left his native Puerto Ri to live Orlando search of enomic opportuni and the chance to live more openly as a gay man the pair offered up a room the home they bought.

— Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot -wi mural, the rgg of church bells and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.

PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS REMEMBERED ON 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASSACRE AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB

Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

ORLANDO (AP) -- Across Central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot-wi mural, the rgg of church bells and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13.

A woman ps while wrg the nam of shootg victims chalk a park across om the inic New York Cy gay and lbian bar, The Stonewall Inn, on Monday New York Cy. On Sunday morng, a gunman at the gay nightclub Pulse Orlando, Fla., perpetrated the adlit mass shootg morn Amerin history.

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