The Human Rights Campaign has released a video on Angel Colon, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting. He has learned to walk again after sustaining six gunshot wounds in the attack, and fights every day to get back to where he was physically. Angel says that he’s been lifted up by support from not…
June 12, 2016, a deadly attack at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando claimed the lives of 49 people — most of them young, LGBTQ and Latinx — and rocked our nation to its core. We will never forget, and we will never stop standing with Orlando. Below, HRC President Chad Griffin remembers Pulse with an open…
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the co-chairs of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus released the following statements in remembrance of last year’s shooting at the historic Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL, in which 49 people were murdered. “Today, we remember the 49 people killed one year ago at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando,” said Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)….
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The undersigned 59 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer (LGBTQ), American Muslim and Latinx organizations released the following statement in advance of the first day of remembrance of the June 12, 2016 massacre at the LGBTQ nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. The statement was convened by national civil rights organizations including Muslim Advocates, the National…
Friday, GLAAD premiered SWERLK, a new song from the Scissor Sisters and MDNR. Proceeds from the single will go to Contigo Fund, which emerged from the Pulse mass shooting and offers financial support to organizations working to heal, educate and empower LGBTQ and Latinx individuals, immigrants and people of color, as well as those working…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Monday, June 12, The San Diego LGBT Community Center will host a brief vigil to remember, honor, and say the names of the 49 largely Latino/a/x LGBTQ individuals whose lives were lost during the Pulse Orlando massacre one year ago. The community will gather in The Center’s parking lot at 6:30…
ORLANDO, Fla. — What began as a simple roll of rainbow ribbon and a box of pins has grown into an international movement to never forget the victims of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, the tragedy at the Pulse Nightclub June 12, 2016. As the one year mark of the Pulse shooting…
ORLANDO, Fla. – Today Equality Florida announced the launch of the #HonorThemWithAction Campaign, a nationwide commemoration of the Pulse massacre that calls on individuals and organizations to honor those killed by taking action to uproot the hatred that feeds bullying, harassment, discrimination, and violence. June 12, 2016, the Orlando community was rocked by the massacre…
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.,– Family members of Tevin Crosby, Juan Guerrero and Javier Jorge-Reyes who were killed in the ISIS inspired Orlando, Fla. shooting at Pulse Nightclub in June 2016, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday, Dec. 19, naming Google, Facebook and Twitter as defendants for providing material support to the terrorist group ISIS. The lawsuit asserts…
LOS ANGELES — For its annual Year in Review issue, The Advocate looks back at a series of moments that collectively shaped 2016. The retrospective look at this past year includes a collection of events that have impacted our society in a variety of ways. One of these incidences includes the Pulse Nightclub massacre, the…
