I never make posts like this on this blog, but here it goes.
June is LGBT pride month here in the United States, marking the anniversary of when the 1969 Stonewall riots occurred and the seeds of the first modern LGBT rights movement began to bloom into LGBT rights as we know it today, I myself am very much a member of the LGBT community and pansexual into men, so this month and this history of our movement means so much to me and everyone else.
This pride month we all woke up to the worst news in our lives.
In Orlando, Florida a man committed a horrible domestic terrorist act, and murdered 50 people in an LGBT nightclub, before being killed by police.
This is the deadliest mass shooting in US history, and the deadliest attack on LGBT people in our history as well. There’s no confirmation just yet that this was a hate crime, but there are some things that make many believe it might have.
I’m utterly wrecked right now and am devastated.
We still have a long way to go for full equality, and as horrible as i feel we just can’t give up, we can’t let people continue to step over us like they did during Stonewall, the White Night Riots, the AIDS crisis, and continued discrimination in employment and in bathrooms at trans people. But we also can not give in to fear, hate, or blind xenophobia either, the LGBT community’s is about peace and equality, and hate can not eradicate hate, and our story is long and monumental and we can’t give up yet, we just can’t…
The LGBT community can and will get a happy ending to our story, we need to.

