Tag: Orlando
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Golden
Watch this…it’s beautiful. Apparently a friend asked the director Kai Stänicke to share it as a response to the Orlando attacks. (via Have A Gay Day) It’s perfect. You think you’re alone…but you’re not.
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We Will Not Live In Fear mix (Pride 2016)
Nearly exactly a week ago a man stepped into a LGBTQ Latinx club in Orlando and shot over a hundred people, killing 49. I usually make personal mixes, but this is specifically as a message for my friends and ‘family’ who are living scared, worried about what happening in the US, UK, and the political…
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)
What can I say about the shitshow that’s been this week? The horror of Orlando, and now the killing of Jo Cox, there just does seem to be some extremist kickback happening, from homophobia, Islamophobia to fascist scaremongering and actual violence. Division and a distinct possibility that UK will vote to leave Europe, leaving us…
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Orlando: We’re Here, We’re Queer and We Will Not Live in Fear
I haven’t posted here about Orlando because a) I’ve been too gutted about the whole thing, a major attack on my community and b) it’s mostly been reposting what has been posted before. You’ll probably find that Jim Jefferies piece that is still going viral, surprised the Charlie Brooker piece hasn’t popped up yet (but…