Naomi

here are some of the victims of the Orlando shooting.

RIP Edward, Stanley, Luis, Juan, Eric, Peter and Luis.

Let’s not forget that this was Latinx night, most of if not all these young men are Latinx; so my heart goes out to the Latinx community too.

This is my friend Drew, on the right in the top pic and in the yellow pants in the bottom (back in my ~days as a twink~ 7 years ago). His boyfriend Juan is the other guy in the top pic, I’m just hearing that Juan died in surgery.

Drew’s still missing. I hope he’s okay but it’s hard to be optimistic now. I can’t lie and say we were close, we just hung out a couple times in our group of friends and have been Facebook friends since. I’ve lost touch with most Orlando friends from college. if he’s indeed gone I wish I had gotten to know him more than I did - he was super smart and kind and so comfortable in his own skin. He had so many friends. There’s probably a thousand people thinking of him now.

Most people probably won’t remember him. I don’t really remember the names and faces of other shooting victims, but the names and faces of the shooters are seared into my memory. It’ll probably be the same thing here for most people.