#pulse shooting ///

[vaspider]

A friend of mine was at Pulse that same night. She got sick to her stomach and left about an hour before the shooting happened.

I didn't know she'd left early when I heard the news. It's nothing like the experience of actually being there, but Pulse is burned into my mind because of it. I can't even describe the fear I felt, I'd never wish it on anyone.

Thank you for sharing the reminder of it, it's so important people don't forget

Holy fuck.

[butch-reidentified]

<33333 you're wonderful, amazing, and incredibly strong and resilient. you've done more for lgbt people than all of the people throwing hate at you combined.

thank you, love ❤️ I know this for a fact. I know for a fact I've done and STILL do more for trans people than ANYONE on here coming for me 🤷 I've personally arranged and/or paid for healthcare including expensive HIV medications, housing, food, doctor's appointments, clothing, and more for homosexual AND TRANS people in need in my community. I've used my connections to get welfare resources for homosexual AND TRANS people they otherwise either couldn't access or would have had to wait months for. I've paid for and legally facilitated the name change of more than one trans acquaintance. I have opened my home to unhoused gay AND TRANS young adults to ensure they had shelter and food and safety and access to medicine, and paid for motel rooms for unhoused lgbt people for weeks or months while they waited for an opening in the shelter (which I also got them on the list for, sometimes when they didn't even technically qualify, using my connections as a Pulse survivor).

I've helped several LGBT young adults in need learn adult skills including how to drive, how to find and then apply & interview for jobs, how to check their vitals and what the dangerous ranges are, basic first aid, CPR certifications, harm reduction in cases involving substance misuse, how to find good medical providers & advocate for themselves to doctors/insurance, how to obtain and navigate medical insurance, how to apply for an apartment rental, how to apply for college or in one case even grad school, how to set boundaries and speak up for their needs, how to get documents changed, and much more.

I'm not wealthy, either, I did all of this while living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to feed myself. I did all this voluntarily, separate from charity organizations or guidance, on my own initiative. I found ways. I always found ways bc it mattered to me. I routinely used my unique connections as a Pulse survivor (esp connections to the lgbt resources who assisted us in the aftermath, but also to politicians like Carlos Guillermo Smith and Anna Eskamani who most of us survivors know personally) to help lgbt people in need. and what do the people who claim to be the real trans activists/allies do? harass and threaten me & women/girls like me - most often online as anonymous cowards, but even IRL (usually still anonymously) with courageous tactics such as doxxing, bomb threats, bombarding their employer's or school's phone line with hypocritical bootlickers calling for her to be fired or expelled.

What can the homophobic, misogynistic, self-proclaimed "pro trans" assholes (who are actually causing harm to & reducing public support for actual sex-dysphoric/GNC people) in my inbox honestly say they have done for trans people? Sent dozens if not hundreds of rape fantasies & death threats to a feminist lesbian who actually does meaningful and materially measurable work for the population you claim to be defending bc she says sex-based oppression is a real thing with material consequences from which all women and girls (50% of the world's human population) deserve liberation? 10/10 insane thought process.

I'm tired of it.

EDIT 12.28.2023 - Please see full version of this post with my vitally important follow-up reblogs here.

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

Pride

submitted by: anonymous

Pride (1135 words) by kellsbells / @ifourmindbeso Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Claudia Donovan, Steve Jinks Summary: I have thought long and hard before posting this. I wrote it on the day I woke up to hear about the Pulse shootings, and decided not to post it at the time, for various reasons. But when I woke up yesterday, I felt just as hopeless and devastated as I did on the morning after what happened at Pulse. So I thought I would share this with you. Obviously this deals with distressing themes and real-life events, so read with caution. After the shooting at Pulse, Helena thinks about hope.

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Goosebumps and tears every time. These words are powerful!

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[capesandshapes]

Hi, this is just a reminder that in acts of violence against the LGBTQAI+ community, implying that perpetrators were in denial of their own sexuality and acted out as a result of that not only shifts the conversation from discussing a homophobic culture that champions this behavior, but also serves to further vilify and mock the queer community.

[rayehendrix]

Sharing this poem from years ago because it's horrifically relevant. Again. I'm so tired.

AFTER ORLANDO

​The week after the shooting             every shower feels like violent baptism—symbolic rebirth             performed too literally—water too hot, skin too red. I let it blister             peel it off in layers until I can’t until my body is not a body             I recognize—becomes a diagram of the bruised blue threads             of nervous systems, bloody and exposed—and then             I ask you to hold me. We don’t know any of the dead             but when they read out the names on the evening news             we take turns weighing them on our tongues, marvel             at how something spoken can be so heavy, can choke             into throat. After that, we shower together. Say their names against             each other’s pruning skin. Say our own with the same reverence—as if             for the first time, or the last.

[ballerinafigurine]

I can't believe it's already been 7 years since the Pulse shooting. I also can't believe that no one is talking about how it was the second greatest mass shooting in the US history. I know that many lgbt+ people on this platform are still young and maybe too young to remember but please educate yourself about it.

[kiyans-corner]

Yesterday was Trans Day of Remembrance, to remember those killed.

Yesterday, someone opened fire at Club Q. 5 dead, 25 injured.

At Pulse Nightclub 2016, 49 dead, 53 injured.

If this is what they pulled yesterday, I don't want to see what they do on Pulse Day of Remembrance.

[houseofpinkboombox]

The dude who carried out the shooting was a wife beating POS that was an Islamic extremist, the government at the time was trying to now fan the fires of islamohobia. Which like sorry it was a hate crime. He was a literal terrorist. It was gutless to not call it what it was.

That doesn't mean that extremist Christians didn't get in on the action afterwords. Doing what they do best being fucking awful.

The only silver lining is that every bar that I personally worked (all LGBT) at had safety meetings and fundraisers. You saw a community come together with candle lit visual's all over the country.

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

[malicesaintoverseer]

💥╾━╤デ╦︻ PULSE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE.

[stormyy-bluezz01]

well, at least it wasn't a hate crime?

(source:

i was not looking for that piece of trivia, as you can see, it just happened)

[butch-reidentified]

I saw your post on Pulse and how fewer and fewer people reach out to you every year. Just wanted to let you know you’re in my thoughts and you’re a hero for saving your friend. Hope you’re doing okay. Peace n love

thank you so much for reaching out 💙 I am definitely glad that time of year is over, and it meant so much to receive so many thoughtful asks and DMs here on tumblr, even if I haven't gotten around to responding to a lot of them. I don't think I did anything unique or heroic, but I am glad she wasn't there blackout drunk by herself that night like she easily could've been (I wasn't feeling terrific and was torn whether or not to go)

[hummingbee-lievable]

'I thought some wrongness in my self had made me that alone.'

In response to the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, to the horrors of the middle East and to the carnage we wreak with our discomfort.

I thought that when prerogatives became persuasion became pestilence

that I would somehow be exempt from all of that.

I thought I could let him buckle wrapped in the teeth of a stranger dappled in shades of glitter

and that the blood wouldn't pool under my feet.

I thought I could overhear the way they whimpered

-in quiet hope that they would go unnoticed-

and that because my fingerprints were not on the doorknob

and my DNA not enshrined by bullet casings

that my silence was enough.

And now?

Now I am still quiet.

Now the saliva and semen and tears and rust have rotted the undersides of my feet and I'm

still afraid.

I think I'm just now realising that it's not that the cries haven't bothered me

it's just that I was too afraid to turn around and look at them.

The same way you never looked my father in the eye but only thanked him for

the belt that hot the bottom of your feet

is the same way I do not dare to look at you now

and only whisper 'thank you' without meaning it.

I should be better than my fears, right?

The wrongness in me is not all I am, right?

bible study by Tony Hoagland

[beabaseball]

Today is another anniversary of the Pulse shooting of 2017.

If feels weird to mention one mass shooting specifically. There have been so many since.

But it is here. Another anniversary, forever.

[shitsncraps]

i wonder how many kids are about to learn what it’s like to be a part of the lgbtq community just like i did back in 2016

i wonder how many people will look back and think about how close they were, how many miles away they were when it happened

this doesnt surprise me but god damn it doesn’t give me much faith for the future

[fujiwaradivebar]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting/colorado-springs-shooting?

Hours before it was hit by a deadly mass shooting Saturday night, Club Q in Colorado Springs posted on Facebook about a planned “all ages drag brunch” on Sunday morning. The event was described by the club as a celebration of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of transgender people who lost their lives to anti-transgender violence.

Shit.

[egglands-worst]

tonight was Very Beautiful