Vigils were also held in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds and Nottingham, with more planned in the coming weeks.
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This is an attack on humanity itself.
“Gay bars are our sense of safety”, said Wofford.
The walk started at the First Unitarian Church, and continued down Church Street to City Hall Park.
“Our community has to be resilient and not show hate with hate, instead stick to what we’ve been doing, which is love will conquer”, he said.
Almost 400 people attended the candlelight vigil inside of Greensboro’s Q-Bar.
More than 100 people have died from gun violence in Baltimore so far this year, including a 13-year-old who was shot in west Baltimore on Saturday.
The 2016 Pride Youngstown Festival is still set for July 16.
It wasn’t only Glasgow that remembered the Orlando victims. The Senate doesn’t have a floor session scheduled until Thursday.
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger shakes hands with Benjamin Kennedy, 22, of Burlington, at a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shootings.
The troupes Friday show will go on, Gage said.
Times Square, right in the heart of the city’s gay quarter, will play host to the vigil which has been hastily arranged by members of Newcastle’s LGBT community in the wake of the tragic events over in America.
Other similar vigils are being planned across Scotland for the next few days.
LGBT activists said their community has always been at the receiving end of bigots from all faiths.
The service organized by the Catholic Diocese of Orlando opened with a call to unity from Bishop John Noonan.
“I hope and pray change will come after this, You sometimes wonder of that’s possible be we have to stand on hope and press forward bringing awareness”. “I find myself awash in anger, sadness – and also in pride”.
“We are all Vermonters, we are all Burlingtonians, and we need to come together and look out for one another”, Weinberger said. “You are not alone”, she said. “And then, I think the only way to combat that hate is not a ministry of words, but of presence”. There are a number of contingencies in place that will be reviewed as we approach the event.
“We haven’t made specific plans but we would like to take this opportunity to participate in future initiatives proposed by US LGBTQ groups as part of a global campaign”, Peng said.
Bernie Sanders, I.Vt., said Vermont’s political leaders are a notable exception – a line that drew huge applause from the crowd.
Hundreds of people gathered Monday night in Boston. At times they held and comforted each other.
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Speakers at the ceremony used both English and Spanish, a reflection of the fact that numerous victims were Latino.
