#OneHeart
What Orlando looks like today is what the United States will look like in 30 years.
Orlando Responds to Massacre
Two Men Kiss,
an Act of Love and Activism
A vigil in West Hollywood after the Orlando massacre
Photo: Harrison Hill/Los Angeles Times
A poster featureing a rainbow-colored version of the Gadsden flag and the hastag #ShootBack in front of the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood
Photo: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times
Pray for Orlando
Despite the outpouring of emotion, few think it will change hearts or minds in a state that has waged a long and bitter battle over equality for gay men and women. The fight over gay rights in Florida has been contentious for a decade and flared anew earlier this year. For months after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, Florida’s law barring it remained on the books and the heavily Republican legislature failed to take up legislation to ditch it. A federal judge declared two laws and provisions of the state constitution that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman unconstitutional in March.
D'Magazine Salon and Spa owned by Luis Daniel Conde and his husband, Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, who were killed in the attack on the Pulse nightclub.
Photo: Angel Franco/The New York Times
#OrlandoUnited
Photo: Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel AP
All gun control efforts are likely to fail due to Republican opposition
In his remarks in Orlando, Obama expressed solidarity with gays and lesbians who were targeted at the nightclub.
"This was an attack on the LGBT community. Americans were targeted because we're a country that has learned to welcome everyone, no matter who you are or who you love," Obama said. "And hatred toward people because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes from, is a betrayal of what's best in us."
Anderson Grills Public Officials about their Complicity in Fostering a Climate of Hate in Florida
Here: Watch Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi Squirm as She Attempts to Explain why she spent hundreds of thousands of Florida taxpayer dollars vilifying gays and lesbians and now seeks to find political advantage in supporting LGBT victims of the Orlando Massacre. Others have suggested that Bondi spent too much time in the tanning bed and/or was still suffering from the fumes of her Redneck bleach job. We won't speculate on why the top cop in Florida seems so unprofessional and clueless. Let the video and her own lame arguments speak for themselves.
Hilarious Memes Flood the Internet
A few of the trending memes above
#ShootBack
