thank you ❤

Thank you for this space. I just keep falling in love with you as a journalist more and more.

We must regulate who can use what bathrooms, because criminals will try to molest our daughters, wives, and mothers.

There was a white guy headed to the California parade with a car full of guns. This is first and foremost about homophobia, that much is clear. There is no focus on the victims or what it might mean at other pride events this month, and there should be.

So many things keep going through my head about misogyny and domestic terrorism and race and guns and wash, rinse, repeat.

I went to the pride parade in DC yesterday and I was one of the most fantastic moments of my life

I read that Hamilton decided to not use muskets in their performance and people are giving them so much shit for it. I think it shows their sensitivity for the gun violence. I mean we all know that much of the Tony audience is going to be LGBT and it is just too raw to see people dancing around and singing with guns.

I have a hard time not hating the parents that raised me. My mother, who threw up on me when she read my diary at 16 and vomited on me because she read of my attraction and confusion I now identify as bisexuality. My mother who still, spits the work out gay in angry and whispered tone so my siblings don’t hear her. My…

I’m devastated and scared. I’ve been to Pulse and I just keep thinking about it. I lived in Florida in a really slow-paced county so once in awhile I’d go with a couple of friends to Orlando where bars with indoor plumbing existed. Being from the tri-state area, Pulse made me feel like I was home. I am just…

Sorry but I just need to vent. If I see one more news story on this where they neglect to mention that this attack was directed at a Gay Nightclub, I might scream. So many news shows are clearly avoiding the fact that it was directed at the LGTQI community and is a hate crime. They keep saying “Nightclub” and that’s…

I’m a gay man and I lost my fiancee to a brutal car accident just days ago. I’m still in shock and my grieving process is going through all sorts of motions. Sudden death is the worst heartbreak. I feel for the victims and their families and friends.

I haven’t had a chance to talk to anyone about this because I’ve had to be out making money so I can eat. I drive for Lyft. I picked up a woman a little while ago who asked me if I’d heard about Orlando. In the 20 minutes of her ride we shared our feelings, our fear, our stories, and held space for each other to…

I want to feel anything other than sorrow and hurt, but I can’t. All I’ve been doing is crying. My community is bleeding, and all I can do is cry.

Well thank you :) After watching this video and then seeing someone I went to high school with on fb post a long ass essay criticizing our country for blaming the gun and not the person, and also this is a result of us caring too much about offending people, I gotta say I’m raging now. At least I know to block him…

Thanks for this space. I’m having a really hard time with this. I just keep thinking about being in my early 20's and going to gay bars for the first time and feeling so elated to be in such a fun and SAFE feeling space, to really feel a sense of community and to be able to let loose in a way that normal spaces would…

There was a news clip where the investigator interviewed said they had to tune out the sound of cell phones constantly ringing in the club because of loved ones trying to reach people.

I just keep thinking about this mother who hasn’t heard anything about her son. I want to believe the son is okay but I’m not feeling optimistic. http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-man-…

I’m so sorry you even had to worry about this at all. <3

I hope he’s safe, Donna. Please keep us posted.

There’s always going to be copycats. One act of violence begets another. Some nut hears about that club being shot up and thinks, “now’s my chance!” and goes to murder some gay people of his own.