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Ten years after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, survivors, family and friends of the 49 victims are gathering in Orlando to honor the dead. Several events around the city will pay tribute to those lost in what was then the largest mass shooting in American history. 58 clubgoers at the Latin-themed night during Pride Month were injured in the massacre, many of them severely. Others still suffer the emotional fallout. “I’ve been crying all day,” out Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan told the Orlando Herald-Tribune. Sheehan was on-site at Pulse as the tragedy unfolded and helped lead the city’s response in the aftermath. Brandon Wolf, a survivor and advocate following the tragedy, lamented “ten years of missing faces at birthday parties, empty seats at dinner tables, and voicemails never returned.” Now senior communications director at Equality Florida, Wolf said missteps honoring the victims and the current hateful political climate have only added to the tragedy. “But one thing has not changed: the strength of our community to, in the face of hate, shine brighter and bolder than before,” he said. Orlandoans will come together to remember at several memorials today and through June. More >

Amid a nationwide rise in book bans and broader attacks targeting LGBTQ+ communities, including more than 500 hostile legislative bills, librarians from at least half a dozen states have joined forces with civil rights groups to push back. That has included working to protect LGBTQ+ rights and challenging what those librarians and their allies call a “manufactured crisis”.

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Demolition of Pulse, the LGBTQ+-friendly nightclub in Florida where 49 people were killed in 2016, began on Wednesday, bringing a symbolic end to an almost decade-long wrangle over the future of the building that some residents and its former owners wanted to be preserved as a memorial for the victims. A new $12m permanent memorial will be built on the site, with final plans expected to be revealed in May, and its completion scheduled for fall 2027. The design will include a reflection pool and private spaces to honor those killed, while finer details, including landscaping and other features, will be finalized in consultation with victims’ families. The Pulse shooting was, at the time, the nation’s deadliest mass shooting.

The American gay movement is an active mass movement in every sense of the word. It is to be found in most urban and in many rural areas, and exists in all walks of life. This book contains a selection of interviews from the film Armee der Liebenden oder Aufstand der Perversen by the German gay film- maker Rosa von Praunheim. His documentary shows the extreme diversity of the American gay movement and centres on interviews with individuals who are either politically or culturally prominent in it, including Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, Fred Halstead, Vito Russo, Bruce Voeller, Tom Reeves, the editors of Fag Rag, Jim Kepner, David Thorstad and others. “A perceptive record of many developments in the American gay movement during the Seventies. Not only the parades and celebrations are revisited, but also the political tests that have shaped our struggle, from Stonewall itself to the Briggs Initiative and Boston Boise. Von Praunheim also goes back beyond Stonewall and evokes our pre-history - the medieval persecutions of witches, the German gay movement under Magnus Hirschfeld squelched by the Nazis, the growth of semi-underground gay organisations in the U.S. in the post-war period. Fiercely unapologetic… Army of Lovers is a noisy and rambunctious epic of our collectivity, a perceptive essay on gay male sexuality, a brainstorming of questions to take us into the Eighties.” — Thomas Waugh Body Politic