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Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

As valuable as mine.

Little comic of a scene from Sword of a Lie by @springlucked (which you should check it out, by the way,,,)

Creating a world that doesn't exist dump

Neil; not at all

Todd; so no need for me to kiss it better?

Neil; IT HURTS SO FUCKING BAD