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“With homosexuals, it’s the same. Out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now.”

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I am a Christian and I have grown up knowing a God of love, knowing a God whose heart broke with the rest of the world on that Saturday night.

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If a space that was designed for us to revel in our queerness, our brownness, our language is wrecked, where else can we go? And the answer is nowhere.

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I’m still trying to understand what it means to be ‘other’. To be gay in a country, in a state that doesn’t approve nor accept someone that looks and acts and loves like me.

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So mourn, and send support, and watch the news, care for your loved ones, and I will too, but things have changed and that is why this is about me, and why I am writing to you. This is about me because I am a part of a country that is broken and hurting, where people are scared to go to vigils, or sporting events, or school.

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In the early morning of Sunday, June 12th, a terrorist by the name of Omar Mateen stormed into Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub and opened fire on dozens of patrons.  Running for their lives, guests tried to escape the terror.

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“I am moved to tears yet again as I struggle to put our experience into words. In spite of a few hateful, broken human beings in this world who can all too easily legally get their hands on mass assault weapons – people ARE kind.”

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While these shootings were happening I was in a gay club in Montevideo. I was dancing, drinking and having fun with some friends. It could have been me.

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These are the names of the innocent human beings who died in the June 12th terrorist attack on Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

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“It seems as if a horrible nightmare as the names on the list are released.”