I am so upset and need to vent. I am a Hispanic Gay and this event has really affected me a lot. Although I did not know the victims personally, I keep looking at their photos and many of them look/remind me of my friends.

The USA has been an overwhelmed Christian country. And with all of our Gay struggles, fights, and any gains for our rights (for us Gays) in the USA against these 'Christian values' that has kept on pandering us forever, it took one Islamic fanatic to kill so many of us and hurt us so much in one tragic event. It is really not fair.

I'll be honest that I did had this feeling of on a few occasions that some Christian fanatic was going to do a disgusting act like this one da. It is so confusing to me, since there are so many backward Christian religious people in this country. And looking back at USA history, some of these Christian Fanatics terrorist have done so much harm to Abortion Clinics (but nothing compare to what happened at the Pulse club in Orlando). But for us Gays, it took a Muslim Crazy man (another minority) to carry out this disgusting act. All my satisfactions and happiness that I had after our Gay Marriage law and any other Gay rights laws that have pass before and after, has just been painfully step on by this tragic act.

I really don't have that much hope for our future as a Gay person in the USA and for our happiness. It has been forever shattered. Our only safe spaces that we have had for the longest time have been compromise. These Gay places where we really enjoyed been our selves with friends and people that accept us (Gay Bars/Clubs/Gay pride Parades) has just made us more vulnerable for more of these tragic events. And it will forever affect me mentally.

I just want all of you to be safe wherever you are.

Come to the UK <3 we are all lovely here you get some racist people and homophobic people but nothing compared to the US

There are more than him out there. Be weary of these people.

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These people? Not all muslims are bad people.

He was a gay just like you people

This.

Imagine how blacks feel, they're the highest rate of victims to gun crimes.

We must come together in this tragedy and overcome the hatred. It shouldn't have taken 49 lives to include more of our community but it's become apparent over the last year that the gun issues are all our problem.

Daesh themselves are all our enemies too - they're killing members of our society and people in their own countries. Enslaving, raping and mutilating women, beheading and castrating gay men, brainwashing young children to murder people instead of getting an education that we often take for granted. Genocide against groups in areas under its control including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims.

Wake up, America World!

and the terrifying thing is that it's a domino effect. every time we crush an insurgency we give rise to another

This is a great post OP. I here you. I am also wary and scare of going into Gay Prides or Gay bars after this.

hey sis, don't lose hope based on this. it was a huge setback, but i still believe that things will continue to slowly get better over time, and there's been a big outpouring of support for the community in the aftermath of this. i think we'll have things like this happening every once in a while, but the discrimination will gradually decrease as we go along. we just have to keep holding on and not give up on our cause.

You shouldn't. That's exactly what he wanted to happen. He was struggling with his sexuality and wants everyone to feel the same fear he did.

ok

Bad people are going to try and do bad things no matter what, you shouldn't live your life in fear of something you can't do anything about.