Thoughtful, compassionate response from the Hamilton cast and the Tonys.

This smacks of self-aggrandizing, pointless posturing.

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.

I just keep reading the words of poets. Like Andrea Gibson.

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…

This. June is Pride Month. It’s to honor the Stonewall riots . It is equal parts celebration and protest.

Someone on the lifehacker article responded to a comment about how ar-15s should be banned with the fact that gun sales are higher under Obama than ever before. Like he's somehow encouraging these gun sales, rather than them being a response to fear that he's going to ban them, and/or racism. It's the poster child for…

The homophobia I experience every day, the occasional acts of thankfully-mild violence, come from fellow Americans by and large. We don’t need this to be a Red Dawn moment. I don’t know whether this dude’s newly-found Islam reinforced his homophobia—I do know all mass murderers are egocentrics who have a pathological…

“Despite rumors that the LGBT Pride parade and other related festivities would be called off in light of the mass shooting in Orlando....”

I had the exact same reaction to his speech. He seemed so...defeated. Like, “If the slaugher of 20 five-year olds couldn’t change anything, why will this. This is the America you apparently want and deserve then...we’ll trot out the speech of thoughts and prayers and....” oh fuck you Congress and NRA lobby is what he…

Gun nerds: Remember to make sure to debate exactly what kind of a gun an AR-15 is and point out that it is definitely not an assault rifle which matters for some reason or other.

That, plus his knowing that Congress would never let him enact the gun control we need, has to way on him heavily.

And the asshole with a powerful gun.

Meanwhile The Orange One has decided to congratulate and pat himself on the back for being “right”because as always this is all about him.

It’s a kind and normal statement/gesture, and I guarantee that it’s comforting to many family members and victims/witnesses. IMO, it takes work to be offended by “God bless you.”

We shouldn’t bring God into this because pretending he/she/it cares about gun violence and that prayers do shit just makes people (especially politicians) pretend they aren’t culpable for what’s happening. Prayers aren't working so leave God the hell out of the discussion.

Isn't it sickening that there has to be a top ten of post massacre speeches?

He sounds and looks just as resigned and numb as I feel. This is the eighteeth time he’s had to make this kind of statement in his presidency. Eighteen times. God.

Definitely in his top 10 post-massacre speeches.

God won’t help anyone. The belief in God is what got these people killed.