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Orlando Love – Remembering Our Angels, will honor the lives of the 49 lives taken the year before at Pulse nightclub Orlando will be hosting a one-year anniversary tribute concert dedicated to Pulse victims and survivors. The performance, titled Orlando Love – Remembering Our Angels, will honor the lives of the 49 lives taken the year before at Pulse nightclub. The Orlando Gay Chorus, Orlando Voices United Choir,The Voice star Sisaundra Lewis, violinist Jose Luis Navarro will all perform. ‘Queen of Merengue’ Olga...

A pastor who said the victims of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando “got what they deserved” has been found guilty on eight molestation charges for a sexual relationship he had with a 15 year-old boy and girl from his church. Monday’s verdict came after just an hour of deliberation by the jury, finding against Kenneth Adkins, 57, who has a prior record and due to Georgia‘s mandatory minimum sentencing laws may never again be a free man,...

Eric Pinder and Dwayne Smoot may have had the first same-sex wedding - ever - at a pro hockey arena Eric Pinder and Dwayne Smoot took to the ice when it came time to exchange their wedding vows. The couple were married at the Amway Arena in front of a large group of family and friends before an Orlando Solar Bears game. They wore hockey jerseys over their suits and priest Gordon Barcalow wore a referee uniform. Barcalow asked the couple if they...

Orlando will mark the one year anniversary of the Pulse shooting with a ‘Day of Love and Kindness’. The massacre, which took place at LGBT+ nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida on 12 June last year, has been described as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history and left 49 people dead and another 53 injured. Orlando United Day, which is described as “A Day of Love and Kindness”, will take place exactly one year after the tragedy to honour those...

Omar Mateen killed 49 and wounded 53 when he attacked gay nightclub Pulse in June The wife of the Orlando shooter has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Noor Salman was taken into custody by FBI at her home outside San Francisco, the New York Times reports, quoting a law enforcement official. They also quote a source familiar with the arrest claiming she was charged with obstruction of justice. Since the 12 June attack on LGBTI nightclub Pulse, which left 49 dead...

Orlando City president: 'This sport can lift up a community and help to heal a community.' Orlando City president Phil Rawlins has unveiled 49 rainbow seats honoring the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. The seats, honoring the people killed at the gay nightclub on 12 June, are in section 12 of the Lions’ new stadium set to open in March at the start of the 2016 Major League Soccer season. ‘Just over six months ago on June the 12th, there...

You’ve said their names. Now, remember them. As LGBT people end a tough year, a new video highlights one of the biggest tragedies of 2016 and proves how, even in this community’s darkest hour, we stand strong. Gay Star News has released a video tribute to the heroes and victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were killed and 53 more were injured during the U.S.’s worst mass shooting ever. The video compiles heartbreaking news coverage, including...

Pulse nightclub will be holding memorial events on Monday to mark the six month anniversary of the deadly shooting. Orlando nightclub Pulse is set to reopen and host a vigil marking the six month anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in US history. Pulse announced the Remembering Our Angels event on Thursday (December 8) on social media. https://twitter.com/pulseorlando/status/807331414505046016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw According to the Orlando Sentinel, the club will reopen twice on Monday with a candlelit vigil and a moment of silence at 2:02 am, the...

A new soccer stadium will have seating dedicated to the Pulse shooting victims. Philip Rawlins, President of the Orlando City Soccer Club, announced the new seating section on Twitter, sharing a photo which shows off the rainbow rows in between the stadium’s purple seats. He wrote: “So happy to see our @pulseorlando tribute seats being installed #DefyExpectations.” https://twitter.com/OCPres/status/802621958626091008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2017, will also include a row left empty to commemorate the 49 people who lost their lives...

On the six month anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Chaskis Theatre presents After Orlando — a global theatre action in response to the Florida attack. It’s a playwright-driven project comprising over seventy short pieces specifically written and curated by emerging and established international voices in theatre, including Neil Labute, Winter Miller and Anders Lustgarten. Chaskis Theatre present an evening of a selection of these powerful plays and poems, plus live music and special guests, in memory of the...

Today is Orlando Pride. To mark the special occasion, Queerty asked Orlando lesbian transgender photographer Melody Maia Monet to share a sampling of her amazing photos of the local LGBTQ community along with captions, taken before and after the Pulse Nightclub massacre of June 12, 2016, in which 49 souls were lost. Aftermath: Pulse Nightclub Memorial July 2016. After: Pulse Vigil Candlelight vigil Lake Eola July 26 honoring 49 souls lost. Before: MarcoMarco Party at Pulse Fashion show at Pulse April 2016. Before: Leather Night Leather Night at BarCodes March 2016. Before:...

The 49 Flowers Art Project is looking for people who can spare 15 minutes of their time to be a life model. Canadian artist Zachari Logan has an exhibition of his Wreath series of drawings displayed at New Art Projects Gallery in Hackney, London from 18 November to 22 December. This Saturday and Sunday (19-20 November), he will be in the gallery from noon until 5pm for his project 49 Flowers to benefit an Orlando charity helping those affected by the...

Orlando. There's no reason to say what state or nation or even continent the city is in.  We all knew it growing up as the home of Disney. The place where happiness lives and breathes and grows. Then Pulse Orlando happened and it was solidified on the global map even more.  We were just about to celebrate the 1st anniversary of marriage equality across the United States when the horrific event last June occurred. I was supposed to go to Orlando...

The city will pay $2.25 million to establish a city-owned memorial of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Mayor Buddy Dyer first hinted at the possibility in August. The city of Orlando has agreed to buy the Pulse nightclub for $2.25 million to establish a permanent memorial, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The city council will vote on the purchase next week. https://twitter.com/JReyesWFTV/status/777890126198349824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The club has become a tragic landmark for the LGBT community after a shooter opened fire inside it...