After the Pulse Club Massacre, It's Time for Gays to Come Home to Republin Party

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• IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS SCE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, AND GAYS AGAST GUNS WON'T LET THE WORLD FET
• THE PULSE MASSACRE, AND THE MEANG OF LGBT PRIOVER THE RABOWMONDAY MARKS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE. IT IS ALSO PRI MONTH, WH LGBT MUNI FEELG THEIR RIGHTS ARE MORE IMPERILED THAN EVER BEFORE.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUN. 12, 2017 12:21PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2017 12:00AM EDT THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY, AT PULSE NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO ON JUNE 12, 2016, HAPPENED AN LGBT VENUE, AND WAS AIMED AT LGBT PEOPLE. Y, WAS A NATNAL TRAGEDY. Y, AFFECTED PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT LGBT. BUT WHATEVER SPECIFILLY MOTIVATED THE ISIS-SPIRED OMAR MATEEN TO KILL 49 PEOPLE A YEAR AGO AND JURE 58 MORE, HE WENT TO PULSE, AN LGBT CLUB ORLANDO, TO DO —AND LGBT PEOPLE WERE THE PRIME FOC OF HIS MURRONS.THE REPEATED EMPHASIS IS LIBERATE, BEE AT THE TIME—AND STILL TODAY—REPORTERS AND MENTATORS HAVE STGGLED TO ARTICULATE AND NTEXTUALIZE THE TRAGEDY AS ONE AIMED AT LGBT PEOPLE. IT HAPPENED REPORT AFTER REPORT, AND AT PRS NFERENC AFTER THE EVENT, WHICH MOTIVATED ME THAT SUNDAY MORNG TO WRE A BROADSI AGAST WHAT QUICKLY BEME AN SULTG, FACT-OMTG, AND EXTREMELY PAFUL ERASURE. IF LGBT PEOPLE QUERIED THIS “TRAGEDY FOR ALL” UMBRELLA VERAGE, OR SISTED THAT THE MEDIA NTEXTUALIZE THE TRAGEDY A MORE NUANCED, SENSIVE FASHN, THEY—LIKE JOURNALIST OWEN JON BRA—WERE TOLD THAT THEY WERE BEG THE NARROW-MD ON. BUT THE PROBLEM WASN’T LGBT PEOPLE’S— WAS A MASTREAM CULTURE THAT HAS ALWAYS HAD DIFFICULTY REPORTG, EVOKG, AND VERG THE FULL SPECTM OF LGBT EXPERIENCE. AS TIME HAS GONE ON, THE MEDIA HAS IMPROVED THAT REPORTG, AND WILL BE STCTIVE TO SEE HOW NUANCED, SENSIVE AND AWARE WILL BE TODAY, MONDAY, SELF.A YEAR ON, AND THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE MASSACRE FALLS THE DAY AFTER THE EQUALY MARCH, THEMSELV MOTIVATED BY A DIFFERENT KD OF GRIEF AND ANGER.JUNE IS PRI MONTH, AND THE PREVAILG MOOD OF THE MONTHS IS HEAVILY ERNED BY THE VICTORI AND LOSS WROUGHT THE ONGOG STGGLE FOR LGBT EQUALY. PRI MONTH IS A MARKER MONTH: A TIME TO EXAME AND TAKE STOCK. THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE MASSACRE, WHICH WILL BE MARKED ORLANDO AND CI ACROSS THE UNTRY TODAY, MONDAY, IS A SHARP AND RRECTIVE ONE. IF YOU HAVE TIME, READ AND WATCH THE TTIMONI OF THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ON, AND WHO ARE STILL NONTG GRIEVO JURI TODAY. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT; THE ARE THE REAL PEOPLE FACG . THE TRADNALLY MARGALIZED—LGBTS, PEOPLE OF LOR—ARE HERE THE MASTAY OF THE STORY.WHAT HAPPENED AT PULSE, AND S RIDUE, REMD LGBT PEOPLE OF THE VLENCE AND WORSE THEY FACE JT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. OMAR MATEEN IS ONE DIVIDUAL, FOR SURE, BUT HIS TARGETED HATRED THAT NIGHT IS A HATRED KNOWN AND EXPERIENCED BY MANY. HEARG THE NEWS LATE AT NIGHT OR WAKG UP THAT SUNDAY MORNG, ANY LGBT PERSON, AS WELL AS FEELG A EP SENSE OF HORROR AND UPSET, MAY HAVE ALSO RELLED MOMENTS WHEN THEY HAD FACED HOMOPHOBIA AND VLENCE BEE OF WHAT AN AGGRSOR HAD RANGEDLY DUCED ABOUT THEM AS PEOPLE BASED ON THEM BEG LGBT, OR PERCEIVED TO BE LGBT.THE PEOPLE AT PULSE THAT NIGHT—MANY LATO AND BLACK—WERE KILLED AND JURED WHEN THEY, LIKE SO MANY OF , WERE A SPACE THEY THOUGHT WAS SAFE, AND MORE THAN THAT A PLACE OF PLEASURE, IENDSHIP, FUN, PE. SUDNLY, NEW YORK CY, A VIS TO THE STONEWALL BAR GREENWICH VILLAGE ME WH AN ARMED GUARD OUTSI.AND SO WAS THAT “PULSE”—AND ONLY NEED A ONE-WORD SCRIPTOR—F TO THE ZIG-ZAGGG, FORWARD, BACKWARD, STALLED, FORWARD AGA PROGRS OF LGBT EQUALY. IT WASN’T SO LONG AGO THAT A BOOK PROCLAIMED S TLE, VICTORY, THIS FIGHT FOR EQUALY—BUT THAT TURNED OUT TO BE PREMATURE. THE GENERAL ARROW MAY POT ONE DIRECTN, BUT THAT ARROW HAS ALL MANNER OF BREAKS AND ANOMALI , AND PROGRS NOW MT BE FOUGHT FOR HARR THAN EVER.THOSE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE MARCHED ON PRI MARCH THE 1980S AND 1990S (ED BEFORE THOSE S) WILL RELL A TIME WHEN PROTTERS WOULD HURL ABE AT MARCHERS OM THE SIL, POLICE WARILY WATCHED THE PROGRS OF THE MARCH, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WOULD STAND, BEMED, WATCHG ALL THE SIGNS AND MARCHERS PASSG BY. AT THAT TIME, WH SO MANY LAWS AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MECHANISMS AGAST , THE MOTIVATG FORCE TO MARCH WAS ANGER AND RISTANCE; THE SAME MOOD THAT UNRPNED THE ORIGAL STONEWALL RTS. HIV AND AIDS, AND THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDI ACCG OM THAT PANMIC, GAVE THE MARCH ANOTHER ANIMATG FOC.SURE, THERE WAS A FEELG OF CELEBRATN AND AN IMMENSE FEELG OF TOGETHERNS AND BELONGG, BUT PRI—NOT JT THE MARCH, BUT THE NCEPT—WAS POLIL, NECSARY, VAL. HARVEY MILK SAID THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON THG AN LGBT PERSON ULD DO WAS E OUT; PRI MARCH WERE THE MOST LERAL, VISIBLE, AND VOL MANIFTATN OF THE STRENGTH OF DOG JT THAT.AS THE YEARS WENT BY, THERE WAS PROGRS: AND IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE BRILLIANCE OF THE LGBT RIGHTS MOVEMENT BED THE BRAVURA ACTNS OF DIRECT ACTN PROTTERS LIKE ACT UP, WH THE SETTG UP OF ANIZATNS LIKE THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, GLAAD AND LATER FREEDOM TO MARRY, WHO LOBBIED OFFIC, BOARDROOMS AND URTROOMS, AS WELL AS ON THE STREETS; LGBT MPAIGNG WAS FURNISHED WH WILDLY DIFFERG TACTICS, AND SOMETIM NFLICT WH ANOTHER, BUT ULTIMATELY PLEMENTARY.IN THE LAST SIX YEARS, KARMA OR GOOD PLANNG HAS MEANT THAT SOME MOMENTO LGBT ADVANC HAVE HAPPENED ON THE EVE OF PRI THEMSELV, CLUDG MOST DRAMATILLY 2015, THE SUPREME COURT LG ENSHRG MARRIAGE EQUALY. THAT NIGHT, THE OBAMA WHE HOE WAS L RABOW LORS. IN SOME POLILLY GOLN YEARS, PRI HAS FELT LIKE A CELEBRATN.THE NTRAST WH THE CURRENT PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN ULDN'T BE MORE STARK. WH THE MANY ATTACKS ON LGBT EQUALY, PARTICULARLY ON TRANS PEOPLE, HAS E A NEW SPIR OF RISTANCE—AND THIS WAS EVINT THE EQUALY MARCH OF SUNDAY, AND PERHAPS THE PRI MARCH HAPPENG AROUND THE UNTRY.IF THAT SPIR OF ANGER AND TERMATN TO NONT AND “RIST” FEELS LLECTIVE, PRI SELF IS ALSO BEG A MORE PLEX NCEPT. THE ACTNS OF INTY POLICS RADILLY ALTERED TORONTO PRI LAST YEAR, AND POSSIBLY THIS YEAR TOO, AS BLACK LIV MATTER MAND THAT THAT CY’S POLICE NOT BE ALLOWED TO MARCH THE PARA. IN D.C. THIS WEEKEND, THE DAY BEFORE THE EQUALY MARCH, THE CY’S PRI MARCH HAD TO BE DIVERTED WHEN A GROUP OF PROTTERS, NO JTICE NO PRI, LLED ON CAPAL PRI, THE MA MARCH’S ANIZERS, TO “BAR RPORATE ENTI THAT FLICT HARM ON HISTORILLY MARGALIZED LGBTQ2S PEOPLE OM PARTICIPATN PRI EVENTS.” (2S MEANS “TWO-SPIRED.”)THE HUFFGTON POST REPORTED THAT THE GROUP ALSO POSTED A PETN ON S SE PHG CAPAL PRI TO “BREAK TI” WH “POLICE, PRISONS AND PIPEL.” RTERS REPORTED THE PROTTERS PARTICULARLY OBJECTED TO THE PARTICIPATN OF WELLS FARGO & CO. AND WEAPONS MAKER NORTHROP GMMAN CORP.CAPAL PRI RPOND, “WE ENURAGE A ROBT, CIVIL, AND HEALTHY NVERSATN WH THE MUNY ABOUT ALL OF THE ISSU THAT IMPACT AND LOOK FORWARD TO HAVG A MUTUALLY RPECTFUL NVERSATN THE DAYS, WEEKS, AND MONTHS AHEAD.”IN TORONTO, ANY POLICE MARCHG THE PRI FTIVI THIS YEAR WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS. NEW YORK CY PRI HAS VED THOSE OFFICERS TO MARCH THE CY. A FEW DAYS AGO, TORONTO POLICE RAISED THE RABOW FLAG AT THEIR HQ FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE QUTN FACG PRIS IS: CAN THE POLICE AND THE PANI BE MA ANSWERABLE FOR WHATEVER IS THAT PROTTERS ARE VEXED BY, AS WELL AS MATAG A MARCHG OR PARA PRENCE WH PRI; AND DO A MAJORY MASS OF THOSE ATTENDG PRI FEEL THE SAME AS THE PROTTERS TARGETG THEIR PARTICIPATN?THE MERCIALIZATN OF PRI IS SOMETHG THAT HAS RANKLED MANY LGBT PEOPLE FOR YEARS; JT AS THE NAME OF PRI SHIFTG OM A “MARCH” TO A “PARA” RANKLED MANY. YET SOMEHOW, JT BY THEIR VERY NATURE, PRI MARCH, OR PARAS (YOU CHOOSE) HAVE ACMODATED ALL VIEWPOTS—AT LEAST UNTIL NOW.WHEN PANI FIRST STARTED SPONSORG PRI, THERE WASN’T MUCH FOR THEM, RATHER THAN MAKG A POLIL STAND THEMSELV. THERE WAS A BRAVERY THERE. AND SURE, SOON THAT BRAVERY DIDN'T SEEM SO BRAVE WHEN “GAY” BEME A OL MARKETG BRACKET TO PLUNR. BUT THE LOGOS OF PANI WAS A BADGE OF PROGRS SELF, AND SOMETHG TO CELEBRATE.THE SAME LGBT-SUPPORTG RPORATNS AND PANI HAVE BEEN KEY THE FIGHT AGAST STAT’ DISCRIMATORY “RELIG LIBERTY” LAWS, MERGG MERCIAL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS THEIR ALIGNMENT WH ACTIVISTS. WH A GREATER FOC ON WHAT THE PANI DO AWAY OM LGBT ISSU, PRIS TODAY LOOK SET TO BEE AN ARENA FOR A NEW SET OF MORAL AND CULTURAL ARGUMENTS TO BE PLAYED OUT ON. MANY LGBT PEOPLE, WHO DO NOT SEE THEMSELV AS PARTICULARLY NSERVATIVE, FD MOVG AND SIGNIFINT TO SEE POLICE AND ARY PERSONNEL MARCHG THE PRI MARCH, FOR EXAMPLE: THE FACT THAT THEY DO SHOWS BRAVERY ON THOSE DIVIDUALS’ PART AND PROGRS MA THOSE STUTNS WHEN TO LGBT EMPLOYMENT. IF “DIVERSY” AND “CLN” ARE KEY TO PRI MARCH, THEN WHAT VALIDAT THE PRENCE OF A PANY EMED BY SOME ACTIVISTS TO BE MORALLY FLAWED?A SPIR OF DIVERSY AND CLN ALSO UNRPNED THE MOVG MEMORIAL EVENTS FOLLOWG “PULSE,” WHICH BEME A MOMENT OF G TOGETHER ACROSS MANY SEXUAL AND SOCIAL DIVIS GRIEF, REMEMBRANCE, ANGER, AND ACTN. CONTEXTUALIZG AN LGBT TRAGEDY GAVE “PULSE” AN IMPORTANT AND TIVE PTH, BUT DIDN’T ISOLATE .AS WE REMEMBER PULSE’S VICTIMS, AND PREPARE FOR MORE PRIS THIS JUNE, ACTIVISTS MIGHT ALSO NONT THE VALUE OF MANDG EXCLNS OM MARCHG AT PRIS, PARTICULARLY AT A TIME WHEN LGBT PEOPLE ATTENDG THE EVENTS DO SO WH A UNIFYG SIRE TO MARCH, AND BE SEEN AND HEARD.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME SUCH ARGUMENTS HAVE PLAYED OUT, AND THE DURABILY OF PRI SPEAKS FOR SELF. THE EVENTS HAVE BEEN HELD, ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, SCE 1970, THE YEAR AFTER THE STONEWALL UPRISGS. THEY ARE LIKELY STRONG ENOUGH TO SHIFT MEANGS AND EMPHASIS WHATEVER THE POLIL CLIMATE IS ANY GIVEN YEAR.ULTIMATELY, A PRI EVENT’S MOOD AND FOC IS TERMED ON THE DAY—HOPEFULLY SUNNY AND NOT TOO BAKGLY HOT—BY THE BROAD MASS OF LGBT PEOPLE PARTICIPATG . AS ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN TO A PRI MARCH KNOWS, N BE ANGRY FOR 200 YARDS, AND THEN PEOPLE START SGG, KISSG, HUGGG, WHISTLG, HOLLERG, AND WAVG AGA. IT N BE, VERY HUMANLY, ALL KDS OF A MARCH, ALL KDS OF A MOOD, ALL KDS OF A DAY, WH ALL KDS OF PEOPLE VOLVED .THE MOST MOVG PULSE-RELATED TTIMONI ALSO REMD OF THEIR BREADTH OF THE LGBT MUNY AND S ALLI. YOU WILL FD ON YOUTUBE NEWS REPORTS OF PEOPLE TRYG TO STAND AGA, AND REGA E OF THEIR LIMBS. THE SURVIVORS, AS WELL AS THOSE BEREAVED, ARE SURROUND BY “FAY” OF ALL KDS: LGBT, STRAIGHT, BLOGIL, SAME-SEX PARTNERED, EMBRACG MUNI. IN CELEBRATG THEIR BRAVERY AND FORTU, AND THE LOVE AND DITN THAT EXISTS AROUND THEM, THERE MAY ALSO BE TIMELY VALUE REMEMBERG WHAT “PRI” REALLY MEANS. TIM TEEMAN
• AFTER THE PULSE CLUB MASSACRE, IT’S TIME FOR GAYS TO COME HOME TO REPUBLIN PARTY
• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS SCE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, AND GAYS AGAST GUNS WON'T LET THE WORLD FET

On Saturday, June 12, a sea of veiled, whe-clad activists om the direct actn group Gays Agast Guns showed up to the Christopher Street Piers—a se wh a storied and plex queer history—to hold space for the 49 people who were murred at Orlando's Pulse nightclub 2016. "Remember the 49, " read one prott sign, and that was the ethos that fueled the group's march om the Piers to the Stonewall Natnal Monument, where numero speakers—cludg Gays Agast Guns foundg member Jay W. Gays Agast Guns is particularly vted potg out the disproportnate effects of gun vlence on LGBTQ+ people, and particularly queer and trans people of lor; below, fd the chillg yet spirg imag om the group's Pulse Remembrance Day prott.

Photographed by Michael GeeBen Williams—one of the origal members of Gays Agast Guns—joed the first weeks followg the massacre.

THE PULSE MASSACRE, AND THE MEANG OF LGBT PRIOVER THE RABOWMONDAY MARKS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE. IT IS ALSO PRI MONTH, WH LGBT MUNI FEELG THEIR RIGHTS ARE MORE IMPERILED THAN EVER BEFORE.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUN. 12, 2017 12:21PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2017 12:00AM EDT THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY, AT PULSE NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO ON JUNE 12, 2016, HAPPENED AN LGBT VENUE, AND WAS AIMED AT LGBT PEOPLE. Y, WAS A NATNAL TRAGEDY. Y, AFFECTED PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT LGBT. BUT WHATEVER SPECIFILLY MOTIVATED THE ISIS-SPIRED OMAR MATEEN TO KILL 49 PEOPLE A YEAR AGO AND JURE 58 MORE, HE WENT TO PULSE, AN LGBT CLUB ORLANDO, TO DO —AND LGBT PEOPLE WERE THE PRIME FOC OF HIS MURRONS.THE REPEATED EMPHASIS IS LIBERATE, BEE AT THE TIME—AND STILL TODAY—REPORTERS AND MENTATORS HAVE STGGLED TO ARTICULATE AND NTEXTUALIZE THE TRAGEDY AS ONE AIMED AT LGBT PEOPLE. IT HAPPENED REPORT AFTER REPORT, AND AT PRS NFERENC AFTER THE EVENT, WHICH MOTIVATED ME THAT SUNDAY MORNG TO WRE A BROADSI AGAST WHAT QUICKLY BEME AN SULTG, FACT-OMTG, AND EXTREMELY PAFUL ERASURE. IF LGBT PEOPLE QUERIED THIS “TRAGEDY FOR ALL” UMBRELLA VERAGE, OR SISTED THAT THE MEDIA NTEXTUALIZE THE TRAGEDY A MORE NUANCED, SENSIVE FASHN, THEY—LIKE JOURNALIST OWEN JON BRA—WERE TOLD THAT THEY WERE BEG THE NARROW-MD ON. BUT THE PROBLEM WASN’T LGBT PEOPLE’S— WAS A MASTREAM CULTURE THAT HAS ALWAYS HAD DIFFICULTY REPORTG, EVOKG, AND VERG THE FULL SPECTM OF LGBT EXPERIENCE. AS TIME HAS GONE ON, THE MEDIA HAS IMPROVED THAT REPORTG, AND WILL BE STCTIVE TO SEE HOW NUANCED, SENSIVE AND AWARE WILL BE TODAY, MONDAY, SELF.A YEAR ON, AND THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE MASSACRE FALLS THE DAY AFTER THE EQUALY MARCH, THEMSELV MOTIVATED BY A DIFFERENT KD OF GRIEF AND ANGER.JUNE IS PRI MONTH, AND THE PREVAILG MOOD OF THE MONTHS IS HEAVILY ERNED BY THE VICTORI AND LOSS WROUGHT THE ONGOG STGGLE FOR LGBT EQUALY. PRI MONTH IS A MARKER MONTH: A TIME TO EXAME AND TAKE STOCK. THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PULSE MASSACRE, WHICH WILL BE MARKED ORLANDO AND CI ACROSS THE UNTRY TODAY, MONDAY, IS A SHARP AND RRECTIVE ONE. IF YOU HAVE TIME, READ AND WATCH THE TTIMONI OF THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ON, AND WHO ARE STILL NONTG GRIEVO JURI TODAY. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT; THE ARE THE REAL PEOPLE FACG . THE TRADNALLY MARGALIZED—LGBTS, PEOPLE OF LOR—ARE HERE THE MASTAY OF THE STORY.WHAT HAPPENED AT PULSE, AND S RIDUE, REMD LGBT PEOPLE OF THE VLENCE AND WORSE THEY FACE JT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. OMAR MATEEN IS ONE DIVIDUAL, FOR SURE, BUT HIS TARGETED HATRED THAT NIGHT IS A HATRED KNOWN AND EXPERIENCED BY MANY. HEARG THE NEWS LATE AT NIGHT OR WAKG UP THAT SUNDAY MORNG, ANY LGBT PERSON, AS WELL AS FEELG A EP SENSE OF HORROR AND UPSET, MAY HAVE ALSO RELLED MOMENTS WHEN THEY HAD FACED HOMOPHOBIA AND VLENCE BEE OF WHAT AN AGGRSOR HAD RANGEDLY DUCED ABOUT THEM AS PEOPLE BASED ON THEM BEG LGBT, OR PERCEIVED TO BE LGBT.THE PEOPLE AT PULSE THAT NIGHT—MANY LATO AND BLACK—WERE KILLED AND JURED WHEN THEY, LIKE SO MANY OF , WERE A SPACE THEY THOUGHT WAS SAFE, AND MORE THAN THAT A PLACE OF PLEASURE, IENDSHIP, FUN, PE. SUDNLY, NEW YORK CY, A VIS TO THE STONEWALL BAR GREENWICH VILLAGE ME WH AN ARMED GUARD OUTSI.AND SO WAS THAT “PULSE”—AND ONLY NEED A ONE-WORD SCRIPTOR—F TO THE ZIG-ZAGGG, FORWARD, BACKWARD, STALLED, FORWARD AGA PROGRS OF LGBT EQUALY. IT WASN’T SO LONG AGO THAT A BOOK PROCLAIMED S TLE, VICTORY, THIS FIGHT FOR EQUALY—BUT THAT TURNED OUT TO BE PREMATURE. THE GENERAL ARROW MAY POT ONE DIRECTN, BUT THAT ARROW HAS ALL MANNER OF BREAKS AND ANOMALI , AND PROGRS NOW MT BE FOUGHT FOR HARR THAN EVER.THOSE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE MARCHED ON PRI MARCH THE 1980S AND 1990S (ED BEFORE THOSE S) WILL RELL A TIME WHEN PROTTERS WOULD HURL ABE AT MARCHERS OM THE SIL, POLICE WARILY WATCHED THE PROGRS OF THE MARCH, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WOULD STAND, BEMED, WATCHG ALL THE SIGNS AND MARCHERS PASSG BY. AT THAT TIME, WH SO MANY LAWS AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MECHANISMS AGAST , THE MOTIVATG FORCE TO MARCH WAS ANGER AND RISTANCE; THE SAME MOOD THAT UNRPNED THE ORIGAL STONEWALL RTS. HIV AND AIDS, AND THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDI ACCG OM THAT PANMIC, GAVE THE MARCH ANOTHER ANIMATG FOC.SURE, THERE WAS A FEELG OF CELEBRATN AND AN IMMENSE FEELG OF TOGETHERNS AND BELONGG, BUT PRI—NOT JT THE MARCH, BUT THE NCEPT—WAS POLIL, NECSARY, VAL. HARVEY MILK SAID THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON THG AN LGBT PERSON ULD DO WAS E OUT; PRI MARCH WERE THE MOST LERAL, VISIBLE, AND VOL MANIFTATN OF THE STRENGTH OF DOG JT THAT.AS THE YEARS WENT BY, THERE WAS PROGRS: AND IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE BRILLIANCE OF THE LGBT RIGHTS MOVEMENT BED THE BRAVURA ACTNS OF DIRECT ACTN PROTTERS LIKE ACT UP, WH THE SETTG UP OF ANIZATNS LIKE THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, GLAAD AND LATER FREEDOM TO MARRY, WHO LOBBIED OFFIC, BOARDROOMS AND URTROOMS, AS WELL AS ON THE STREETS; LGBT MPAIGNG WAS FURNISHED WH WILDLY DIFFERG TACTICS, AND SOMETIM NFLICT WH ANOTHER, BUT ULTIMATELY PLEMENTARY.IN THE LAST SIX YEARS, KARMA OR GOOD PLANNG HAS MEANT THAT SOME MOMENTO LGBT ADVANC HAVE HAPPENED ON THE EVE OF PRI THEMSELV, CLUDG MOST DRAMATILLY 2015, THE SUPREME COURT LG ENSHRG MARRIAGE EQUALY. THAT NIGHT, THE OBAMA WHE HOE WAS L RABOW LORS. IN SOME POLILLY GOLN YEARS, PRI HAS FELT LIKE A CELEBRATN.THE NTRAST WH THE CURRENT PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN ULDN'T BE MORE STARK. WH THE MANY ATTACKS ON LGBT EQUALY, PARTICULARLY ON TRANS PEOPLE, HAS E A NEW SPIR OF RISTANCE—AND THIS WAS EVINT THE EQUALY MARCH OF SUNDAY, AND PERHAPS THE PRI MARCH HAPPENG AROUND THE UNTRY.IF THAT SPIR OF ANGER AND TERMATN TO NONT AND “RIST” FEELS LLECTIVE, PRI SELF IS ALSO BEG A MORE PLEX NCEPT. THE ACTNS OF INTY POLICS RADILLY ALTERED TORONTO PRI LAST YEAR, AND POSSIBLY THIS YEAR TOO, AS BLACK LIV MATTER MAND THAT THAT CY’S POLICE NOT BE ALLOWED TO MARCH THE PARA. IN D.C. THIS WEEKEND, THE DAY BEFORE THE EQUALY MARCH, THE CY’S PRI MARCH HAD TO BE DIVERTED WHEN A GROUP OF PROTTERS, NO JTICE NO PRI, LLED ON CAPAL PRI, THE MA MARCH’S ANIZERS, TO “BAR RPORATE ENTI THAT FLICT HARM ON HISTORILLY MARGALIZED LGBTQ2S PEOPLE OM PARTICIPATN PRI EVENTS.” (2S MEANS “TWO-SPIRED.”)THE HUFFGTON POST REPORTED THAT THE GROUP ALSO POSTED A PETN ON S SE PHG CAPAL PRI TO “BREAK TI” WH “POLICE, PRISONS AND PIPEL.” RTERS REPORTED THE PROTTERS PARTICULARLY OBJECTED TO THE PARTICIPATN OF WELLS FARGO & CO. AND WEAPONS MAKER NORTHROP GMMAN CORP.CAPAL PRI RPOND, “WE ENURAGE A ROBT, CIVIL, AND HEALTHY NVERSATN WH THE MUNY ABOUT ALL OF THE ISSU THAT IMPACT AND LOOK FORWARD TO HAVG A MUTUALLY RPECTFUL NVERSATN THE DAYS, WEEKS, AND MONTHS AHEAD.”IN TORONTO, ANY POLICE MARCHG THE PRI FTIVI THIS YEAR WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS. NEW YORK CY PRI HAS VED THOSE OFFICERS TO MARCH THE CY. A FEW DAYS AGO, TORONTO POLICE RAISED THE RABOW FLAG AT THEIR HQ FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE QUTN FACG PRIS IS: CAN THE POLICE AND THE PANI BE MA ANSWERABLE FOR WHATEVER IS THAT PROTTERS ARE VEXED BY, AS WELL AS MATAG A MARCHG OR PARA PRENCE WH PRI; AND DO A MAJORY MASS OF THOSE ATTENDG PRI FEEL THE SAME AS THE PROTTERS TARGETG THEIR PARTICIPATN?THE MERCIALIZATN OF PRI IS SOMETHG THAT HAS RANKLED MANY LGBT PEOPLE FOR YEARS; JT AS THE NAME OF PRI SHIFTG OM A “MARCH” TO A “PARA” RANKLED MANY. YET SOMEHOW, JT BY THEIR VERY NATURE, PRI MARCH, OR PARAS (YOU CHOOSE) HAVE ACMODATED ALL VIEWPOTS—AT LEAST UNTIL NOW.WHEN PANI FIRST STARTED SPONSORG PRI, THERE WASN’T MUCH FOR THEM, RATHER THAN MAKG A POLIL STAND THEMSELV. THERE WAS A BRAVERY THERE. AND SURE, SOON THAT BRAVERY DIDN'T SEEM SO BRAVE WHEN “GAY” BEME A OL MARKETG BRACKET TO PLUNR. BUT THE LOGOS OF PANI WAS A BADGE OF PROGRS SELF, AND SOMETHG TO CELEBRATE.THE SAME LGBT-SUPPORTG RPORATNS AND PANI HAVE BEEN KEY THE FIGHT AGAST STAT’ DISCRIMATORY “RELIG LIBERTY” LAWS, MERGG MERCIAL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS THEIR ALIGNMENT WH ACTIVISTS. WH A GREATER FOC ON WHAT THE PANI DO AWAY OM LGBT ISSU, PRIS TODAY LOOK SET TO BEE AN ARENA FOR A NEW SET OF MORAL AND CULTURAL ARGUMENTS TO BE PLAYED OUT ON. MANY LGBT PEOPLE, WHO DO NOT SEE THEMSELV AS PARTICULARLY NSERVATIVE, FD MOVG AND SIGNIFINT TO SEE POLICE AND ARY PERSONNEL MARCHG THE PRI MARCH, FOR EXAMPLE: THE FACT THAT THEY DO SHOWS BRAVERY ON THOSE DIVIDUALS’ PART AND PROGRS MA THOSE STUTNS WHEN TO LGBT EMPLOYMENT. IF “DIVERSY” AND “CLN” ARE KEY TO PRI MARCH, THEN WHAT VALIDAT THE PRENCE OF A PANY EMED BY SOME ACTIVISTS TO BE MORALLY FLAWED?A SPIR OF DIVERSY AND CLN ALSO UNRPNED THE MOVG MEMORIAL EVENTS FOLLOWG “PULSE,” WHICH BEME A MOMENT OF G TOGETHER ACROSS MANY SEXUAL AND SOCIAL DIVIS GRIEF, REMEMBRANCE, ANGER, AND ACTN. CONTEXTUALIZG AN LGBT TRAGEDY GAVE “PULSE” AN IMPORTANT AND TIVE PTH, BUT DIDN’T ISOLATE .AS WE REMEMBER PULSE’S VICTIMS, AND PREPARE FOR MORE PRIS THIS JUNE, ACTIVISTS MIGHT ALSO NONT THE VALUE OF MANDG EXCLNS OM MARCHG AT PRIS, PARTICULARLY AT A TIME WHEN LGBT PEOPLE ATTENDG THE EVENTS DO SO WH A UNIFYG SIRE TO MARCH, AND BE SEEN AND HEARD.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME SUCH ARGUMENTS HAVE PLAYED OUT, AND THE DURABILY OF PRI SPEAKS FOR SELF. THE EVENTS HAVE BEEN HELD, ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, SCE 1970, THE YEAR AFTER THE STONEWALL UPRISGS. THEY ARE LIKELY STRONG ENOUGH TO SHIFT MEANGS AND EMPHASIS WHATEVER THE POLIL CLIMATE IS ANY GIVEN YEAR.ULTIMATELY, A PRI EVENT’S MOOD AND FOC IS TERMED ON THE DAY—HOPEFULLY SUNNY AND NOT TOO BAKGLY HOT—BY THE BROAD MASS OF LGBT PEOPLE PARTICIPATG . AS ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN TO A PRI MARCH KNOWS, N BE ANGRY FOR 200 YARDS, AND THEN PEOPLE START SGG, KISSG, HUGGG, WHISTLG, HOLLERG, AND WAVG AGA. IT N BE, VERY HUMANLY, ALL KDS OF A MARCH, ALL KDS OF A MOOD, ALL KDS OF A DAY, WH ALL KDS OF PEOPLE VOLVED .THE MOST MOVG PULSE-RELATED TTIMONI ALSO REMD OF THEIR BREADTH OF THE LGBT MUNY AND S ALLI. YOU WILL FD ON YOUTUBE NEWS REPORTS OF PEOPLE TRYG TO STAND AGA, AND REGA E OF THEIR LIMBS. THE SURVIVORS, AS WELL AS THOSE BEREAVED, ARE SURROUND BY “FAY” OF ALL KDS: LGBT, STRAIGHT, BLOGIL, SAME-SEX PARTNERED, EMBRACG MUNI. IN CELEBRATG THEIR BRAVERY AND FORTU, AND THE LOVE AND DITN THAT EXISTS AROUND THEM, THERE MAY ALSO BE TIMELY VALUE REMEMBERG WHAT “PRI” REALLY MEANS. TIM TEEMAN

They joed the Gays Agast Guns monstratn solidary. Walker, one of the foundg members of Gays Agast Guns. In Orlando, people grappled wh the magnu of the horror: One man armed wh an asslt rifle and a pistol managed to kill 49 people and wound another 53 si a gay nightclub.

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. (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 (13. Saturday night was Lat Night at Pulse, one of the cy's bt-known gay clubs, and the place was packed wh patrons both gay and straight, young and not-so-young, om the U.

AFTER THE PULSE CLUB MASSACRE, IT’S TIME FOR GAYS TO COME HOME TO REPUBLIN PARTY

At least two men said they teracted wh Mateen on gay datg apps. But "the FBI has found no evince so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or munited on gay datg apps, " acrdg to the Los Angel Tim. Hearg the news late at night or wakg up that Sunday morng, any LGBT person, as well as feelg a ep sense of horror and upset, may have also relled moments when they had faced homophobia and vlence bee of what an aggrsor had rangedly duced about them as people based on them beg LGBT, or perceived to be people at Pulse that night—many Lato and black—were killed and jured when they, like so many of , were a space they thought was safe, and more than that a place of pleasure, iendship, fun, pe.

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And sure, soon that bravery didn't seem so brave when “gay” beme a ol marketg bracket to plunr. Like many gay and queer iendly clubs, Pulse was a form of sanctuary for our muny. Early Sunday morng, Islamic extremist Omar Mateen murred at least 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

A former worker said pany officials refed to vtigate Omar’s equent racist and homophobic attacks “bee he was Mlim. Omar Mateen took time out durg his mass slghter of gays at Pulse nightclub to ll 911 and pledge his allegiance to ISIS. Then he end the ll and killed some more gays.

And should be noted that Omar Mateen sed other gay clubs before he cid to kill gays at The Pulse on Lato night. Leftwg gay activists posted ridiculo and ignorant remarks after the adlit sgle attack on gays morn history.

Gay personaly Perez Hilton blamed the NRA. It was a sry time to be gay. Like most gay Amerins, I don’t wear my sexualy on my sleeve.