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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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

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ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

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Guerrero, who had recently begun attendg the Universy of Central Florida, had only recently e out to his fay as gay, acrdg to The Associated Prs. Before that, she played basketball at Post Universy Connecticut and worked as a drag kg and bouncer at a gay club Massachetts, NBC Connecticut reports. A iend Pennsylvania, Daniel Gmys-Casiano, paid tribute to Wilson-Leon on Facebook as "a wonrful young man full of life, who endured untls days of bullyg while growg up, by cel people llg him all sorts of horrendo homophobic slurs.

Matt Molans, a iend of Serrano's, tells NPR that Serrano helped Molans accept himself as a gay person.

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