#pulse nightclub

[queerasfact]

Today, June 12, we remember the 49 people who were killed seven years ago at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.  We are thinking of them, their families and their communities.

[Image: Memorial wall in Orlando featuring rainbows, messages of love, and photographs of vigils commemorating those murdered]

#pulse nightclub #pulse orlando #pulse night of remembrance #pulse memorial #queer #lgbt #lgbtq

[butch-reidentified]

you survived the pulse shooting?! oh honey.. thats so awful..

so awful that a scum miserable cunt bitch like you wasnt brutally and painfully massacred. So awful that decent human beings lost their lives only for a piece of bottom of the barrel shit like you to walk out with your life when you should've been one of dead... just so unfortunate honey.

at least maybe one day your mental illness will get the best of you and you'll finish the job yourself :)

die, cunt. and make it snappy.

unfortunately for you, my mental health is excellent 😪 I'm currently on the way to an island resort with my wife & our best friends for her birthday, but I promise I'll try really hard to find something to be a little unhappy about if that'll help, ok? 💗

oh and thanks for reminding everyone how lovely trans activists are to anyone who even questions their beliefs on gender

#what are these even meant to accomplish?? #like there's no way anyone actually is emotionally affected by this type of shit right? 💀 #idgi unless the point is just anon making anon feel special #i can't imagine reading this and not laughing out loud at how cringe #mine #ask #dramatic reading material #anon #anon hate #pulse nightclub #pulse shooting survivor #pulse survivor #trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtqia #lgbt #tra receipts #trans receipts

[poetry-protest-pornography]

It's been 7 years.

#pulse nightclub #may their memories be a revolution #<saw this tag in a rb and had to add it #z"l

[vkelleyart]

Dance to celebrate. Dance to resist. Dance to love. 🏳️‍🌈

Remembering the Pulse Nightclub shooting with a Pride-themed illustration of American Ballet Theater’s “Touché” as performed by João Menegussi and Calvin Royal III.

#pulse nightclub #Joao Menegussi #Calvin Royal III #American Ballet Theater #Touché #Natural Media #Pride 2022

[haggishlyhagging]

“[Omar] Mateen married Ms Yusufiy, an estate agent whose family was originally from Uzbekistan, in April 2009, and it didn't take long for her to realise that her new husband was an abuser. In a classic pattern of controlling behaviour, he confiscated her salary and refused to allow her contact with her family; he was physically violent as well, once trying to choke her because she hadn't finished the laundry. After four months of abuse, Ms Yusufiy's parents realised what was going on, came down from New Jersey and had to physically wrest her from their son-in-law's arms as he tried to stop her leaving him.

Mateen's second wife was not so lucky. Noor Salman, whose Palestinian parents came to the US from the West Bank, was divorced after an arranged marriage that did not work out. She met Mateen on a dating site called Arab Lounge and married him at a mosque in Rodeo, California, in 2011. In another pattern familiar to experts on domestic abuse, he started attacking her when she became pregnant, punching her and threatening to hit her harder if she told anyone. After interviewing Ms Salman, the New York Times described the abuse she suffered in detail:

When [Mateen] became angry, he would start biting his lips and clenching his fists. In public, he also had a code word he used if she was doing something he didn't like. He would call her 'shar'. That was short for sharmuta - slut or whore in Arabic.

He would also pull her hair, something she has since learned he also did to his first wife. He choked her and threatened to kill her. He never said he was sorry. ‘He had no remorse,’ she said.

In this second marriage, unlike the first, Mateen had a hold over his wife: they had a child together and he threatened that he would get custody of their son if she tried to leave. On the night of the attack, she was in bed when he sent her a text message in the early hours, asking whether she knew what had happened. Hours later, the FBI came to the house and revealed that her husband was the perpetrator of the nightclub attack.

From the outset, the FBI suspected that Ms Salman knew about Mateen's plans in advance. Very unusually, in a development which exposes a failure by the American criminal justice system to understand how women are controlled by their abusers, she was charged with being her husband's accomplice and spent four months in jail awaiting trial. The prosecution case rested on a confession she signed following an interview which lasted almost twelve hours, carried out directly after the attack, when she was in a state of shock and wasn't represented by a lawyer. The FBI agents failed to tape the interview and a key prosecution claim, that Ms Salman had gone on a reconnaissance mission to the nightclub a few days before the attack, fell apart when phone records showed neither she nor her husband was anywhere near it on the day in question. She was tried on charges of obstruction of justice and of aiding and abetting her husband, a man she accused of beating, raping and imprisoning her in their home. In March 2018, not quite two years after the massacre, Ms Salman was acquitted on both counts. Like other widows of terrorists, she has been left with the task of bringing up her son on her own - and one day having to tell him why he doesn't have a father. While Mateen is rightly reviled as the perpetrator of the worst homophobic attack in American history, he was also a domestic tyrant who tried to compensate for gnawing feelings of inadequacy by beating up women in his own home.”

-Joan Smith, Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

#joan smith #pulse nightclub #male violence #domestic abuse #domestic terrorism #female oppression #amerika

[scretladyspider]

#lgbtqia #queer #pulse nightclub #honor them with action

[nekodani]

#lgbtqiia+ #pride #pride 2023 #love is love #pulse nightclub #r.i.p. #harvey milk #trans rights are human rights #bird girl #protect trans kids #stone wall #pride flags

[tiffanyetaylor]

Today is the seven-year anniversary of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Never forget 💛💚💙💜🖤💔

#pulse #pulse nightclub #love is love #fuck hate #lgbtq #lgbtqia

[diasporangael]

From the Memory Hole

#clinton #pulse nightclub #Omar Matteen #FBI #ISIS

[aceisgay]

I live an hour away from Colorado Springs.

I live forty minutes away from Boulder.

I live thirty minutes away from Aurora.

I live in Arvada, two minutes away from where John Hurley stopped a man from killing dozens in Olde Town before he was killed himself. I was there that day.

I lived In Fort Lauderdale, Florida when the shooting at Pulse Nightclub happened. I had just been there that past weekend.

I'm only 34 years old, and my life has been touched by so many shootings. But I'm lucky. I'm still here.

But there are many that aren't and it is not fair. They should all be alive. All of them. This country has many issues, but hatred is at the top.

When will it be enough? When will we wake up, and see the world that should be? Why must we see so much hate and death and vitriol being spewed at us, especially by those in power?

Black people want to live.

Disabled people want to live.

LGBT+ people want to live.

Latino people want to live.

Asian people want to live.

Jewish people want to live.

WE JUST WANT TO LIVE.

Why won't you let us?

#mass shooting #lgbt+ #lgbt #lgbtaq #jewish #asian #spanish #latinx #latino #latina #colorado #colorado springs #q nightclub #pulse nightclub #gun control #racism #bigotry #transgendered #trans #trans acceptance #trans awareness week

[elvo86]

Fuck. Not again. And on Transgender Day of Remembrance, no less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/20/colorado-springs-lgbtq-clubq-shooting/

#club q #colorado springs #transgender day of remembrance #transgender #lgbtq #faithfullylgbt #lord help us all #pulse nightclub

[chelledoggo]

CW: queerphobia, religion, pulse nightclub mention, shooting mention, death mention

okay.

i wasn't gonna bring this up because i figured i shouldn't give people like this attention.

but i think God's putting it on my heart that i DO need to.

last night i got a reply to a comment on youtube from a """""christian""""" telling me, in the name of Christ, that i deserved to be brutally murdered for being queer and progressive.

screenshot below the cut. the above CWs apply.

i'm not even offended on my own behalf. like seriously if they'd just mocked me for being queer i would've shrugged it off.

but this isn't about me. this is about Christ, and it's about the LGBTQ+ community.

if you claim to be a Christian, you are a representative of Christ.

if you curse people in Christ's name, not only are you committing a sin, but you are also spitting in the face of the God you claim to love and follow.

Christ said that the two most important commandments are to love God with all your heart, and to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:36-40)

a Christian should believe that all humans were made in the image of God. it stands to reason, then, if you love your neighbor, you are loving God by proxy.

likewise, when you hate others, you hate God as well.

when you preach Christ and hate in the same breath, you are offending Christ.

what's more, when you are taking a very serious tragedy in vain - a tragedy that resulted in the death of 49 people and the harm of 53 more - you are displaying blatant animosity towards God's beautiful creations.

it doesn't matter how you feel about their """lifestyle""" (it's not a "lifestyle" btw it's literally just how they were born). God's hands still lovingly sculpted them.

when you say shit like this, you're basically looking God in the face and saying "hey, Father! you know these sentient beings that you crafted? the ones that you made unique and special and breathed the gift of life into because you loved them so much? yeah. i think they're shit and deserve to burn. i think you made a mistake when you made them. fuck you."

say what you want about me. but when you talk smack about God and his wonderful works while also claiming to speak on His behalf, you've crossed the line.

sorry for the rant.

this just...

really pissed me off.

God bless every single LGBTQIA+ person. i'm proud of you all for waking up every day and continuing to live despite how scary and hateful the world is becoming. you're all very strong and very brave, and i love you all. 💖

#queer christian #progressive christianity #lgbtq+ christians #evangelicals #religion cw #queerphobia cw #shooting mention #pulse nightclub #important

[butch-reidentified]

<33333 you're wonderful, amazing, and incredibly strong and resilient. you've done more for lgbt people than all of the people throwing hate at you combined.

thank you, love ❤️ I know this for a fact. I know for a fact I've done and STILL do more for trans people than ANYONE on here coming for me 🤷 I've personally arranged and/or paid for healthcare including expensive HIV medications, housing, food, doctor's appointments, clothing, and more for homosexual AND TRANS people in need in my community. I've used my connections to get welfare resources for homosexual AND TRANS people they otherwise either couldn't access or would have had to wait months for. I've paid for and legally facilitated the name change of more than one trans acquaintance. I have opened my home to unhoused gay AND TRANS young adults to ensure they had shelter and food and safety and access to medicine, and paid for motel rooms for unhoused lgbt people for weeks or months while they waited for an opening in the shelter (which I also got them on the list for, sometimes when they didn't even technically qualify, using my connections as a Pulse survivor).

I've helped several LGBT young adults in need learn adult skills including how to drive, how to find and then apply & interview for jobs, how to check their vitals and what the dangerous ranges are, basic first aid, CPR certifications, harm reduction in cases involving substance misuse, how to find good medical providers & advocate for themselves to doctors/insurance, how to obtain and navigate medical insurance, how to apply for an apartment rental, how to apply for college or in one case even grad school, how to set boundaries and speak up for their needs, how to get documents changed, and much more.

I'm not wealthy, either, I did all of this while living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to feed myself. I did all this voluntarily, separate from charity organizations or guidance, on my own initiative. I found ways. I always found ways bc it mattered to me. I routinely used my unique connections as a Pulse survivor (esp connections to the lgbt resources who assisted us in the aftermath, but also to politicians like Carlos Guillermo Smith and Anna Eskamani who most of us survivors know personally) to help lgbt people in need. and what do the people who claim to be the real trans activists do? harass and threaten me anonymously online.

What can the homophobic "pro trans" assholes in my inbox honestly say they have done for trans people? Sent SA & death threats to a woman who actually helps them bc she says sex-based oppression is a real thing with material consequences? 10/10 insane thought process.

I'm tired of it.

EDIT 12.28.2023 - Please see full version of this post with my vitally important follow-up reblogs here.

#mine #radblr #ask #radfem safe #radfem friendly #trans identity #gender ideology #non anon ask #non anon #Pulse survivor #pulse nightclub #pulse shooting #anon love

[ashleyfableblack]

A heavy-hitting image of PRIDE art by Ahrimanraven. NEVER forget the victims. Never forget the sacrifices of those who came before. 💔😢💜

OC "Stonewall" by Ahriman 👍

Art ref by yakovlev-vad

#mlpfim #mlpg4 #mlp oc #mlp oc art #ahriman raven #lgbtq #stonewall #lgbt pride #queer pride #lgbtq history #pulse nightclub #gay liberation front #know your history dont repeat it

[asraspeaks2]

😢 😢 😢

Not sure who the writer is, but wow.

#uvalde #sandy hook #pat robertson #emotionalhealth #transisbeautiful #matthew shepard #pulse nightclub #club q #edie windsor #gertrude stein #harvey milk

[ttpd-chair]

It’s the seventh anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. May those we lost rest in peace and may their memory motivate everyone to work towards LGBTQ+ equality. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#pulse nightclub shooting #pulse nightclub #text #lgbtq history #lgbtq