“So many folks in this tragedy are from the Latino community and their families don’t live here in Orlando; they don’t even live in the country”.
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“Let’s all today pledge an allegiance of love to them and to their families who are suffering so deeply”, singer Lady Gaga told the crowd in California, the Los Angeles Times reports.
“That is the problem: why didn’t they know?”
Other witnesses said they recognised him from gay dating apps.
Downtown restaurant The Livingroom will hold a fundraising event Monday to support victims of the Orlando shooting at Pulse nightclub last weekend.
Authorities said gunman Omar Mateen, 29, had been radicalized by Islamist propaganda.
A gunman killed dozens of people in a massacre at a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern USA history.
“The straight, heterosexual man is very macho and the homosexual man feels intimidated about going out and expressing himself”, he said.
Leaders in the LGBT community urged everyone to show their support and not condemn those in the Muslim community.
Fans, meanwhile, will get “We Are Orlando” t-shirts. She’s even toyed with the idea of working for an LGBT nonprofit.
On the website, Equality Florida reveals that it is working with the City of Orlando, local partners, and the National Compassion Fund, a project of the National Center for Victims of Crime, which deployed funds in both the Chattanooga and Aurora shootings, to distribute contributions from the Pulse Victim Fund.
Some of the sizable donations came from Cricket Wireless, which gave $25,000, and Executive Pride, an organization that aims to promote LGBT rights in the business community.
In Berlin, more than 100 people gathered outside the United States embassy to light candles, lay flowers and wave rainbow flags.
Krueger said religion is preventing many from changing their views on homosexuality.
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“We’ve had victims’ families and survivors contact us needing support for funeral arrangements, needing support burying their family overseas”, she said.
