Holy shit! Did you see what she did to that van?
Sunny Pride Up by Petra Shrieves
Step-wells in India by Victoria Lautman
Battle of the bastards
- Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34.
- Stanley Almodovar III, 23.
- Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20.
- Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22.
- Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36.
- Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22.
- Luis S. Vielma, 22.
- Kimberly Morris, 37.
- Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30.
- Darryl Roman Burt II, 29.
- Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32.
- Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21.
- Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25.
- Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35.
- Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50.
- Amanda Alvear, 25.
- Martin Benitez Torres, 33.
- Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37.
- Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26.
- Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35.
- Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25.
- Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31.
- Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26.
- Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old.
- Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old.
- Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old.
- Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
- Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
- Cory James Connell, 21 years old
- Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old
- Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
- Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
- Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old
- Jerald Arthur Wright, 31
- Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
- Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25
- Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24
- Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27
- Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
- Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49
- Yilmary Rodriguez Sulivan, 24
- Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32
- Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
- Frank Hernandez, 27
- Paul Terrell Henry, 41
You will not be forgotten.
RIP
tell me “we are Orlando” after you and your masc friends address how the homophobia you’ve internalized is also the same kind that led to the massacre
tell me “we are Orlando”‘after you recognize POC in the community as more than just trophies you can cross off your fetish bucket list
tell me “we are Orlando” after you start uplifting feminine and trans men instead of treating them like a stain you can’t remove from the carpet
tell me “we are Orlando” after you start putting POC on the cover of your magazines more than once every leap year
tell me “we are Orlando” when you stop giving priority to straight white men over LGBT POC voices
tell me “we are Orlando” when we really become a community instead of a straight acting white boys only club
Because at a time like this you should really be dividing the community. Shit like this is fucking disgusting
people have been asking me why I made such a divisive post during this tragedy, so here’s the deal.
I left a vigil in Portland where a white gay man with “no rice no spice” on his scruff profile took a selfie holding a candle as he mourned 49 brown bodies.
A masculine friend on Facebook posted “we are Orlando” and filtered his profile picture. 12 hours later he made another post about how he can’t stand when men sound like they have “a purse falling out of their mouth”.
The same accounts I saw calling #GayMediaSoWhite divisive are now the same ones using a tragedy involving 98% POC to make out with their boyfriends with #2MenKissing for nothing more than reblogs while praising Nick Jonas, a white straight man, for being such a brave ally and speaking on behalf of LGBT people of color.
I made this post because even in tragedy, y'all never stop.
So, yeah, this post is divisive. But so are the actions of those within the community I’m holding accountable as they continue to build social capital from a tragedy involving men both brown and feminine.
This isn’t a divisive post. The LGBT+ community has BEEN divided because of the behavior described in that post. The least people can do is try to read it without resorting to skimming and attacking what’s being said.