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Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

This past weekend, the worst mass shooting executed by a single individual in United States history took place in Orlando, Florida at a gay, Latin nightclub, starting hours after Brooklyn's Pride parade had ended and ending in a bloody standoff hours before New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off

By Emilie Ruscoe

June 13, 2016 · 2 min read

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick
A Christopher Street Day Parade celebrating the LGBT community and condemning violence against it. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Bushwick

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

This past weekend, the worst mass shooting executed by a single individual in United States history took place in Orlando, Florida at a gay, Latin nightclub, starting hours after Brooklyn's Pride parade had ended and ending in a bloody standoff hours before New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off

· 2 min read
Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

This past weekend, the worst mass shooting executed by a single individual in United States history took place in Orlando, Florida at a gay, Latin nightclub, starting hours after Brooklyn’s Pride parade had ended and ending in a bloody standoff hours before New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off.

The massacre, described CNN’s Brian Stelter as a “sick confluence” of an act of terror, a mass shooting and a hate crime, left 50 people…

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