June 12 marks the 5th anniversary of the Pulse massacre DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com I watched as each person who stepped off the bus began to cry.
I followed, and as my feet touched the ground, I began to cry as well. It was 2017, and we were at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2017, almost a year after the massacre that took 49 lives and severely injured another 53 people the year before during Pride Month.
June 12 is the five-year anniversary of the Pulse shootings. I was in Orlando for an LGBTQ journalists conference that day in 2017.
Before taking us to dinner, our bus stopped at the new shrine. We got to see what was left of Pulse. At the time, chain link fence surrounded the property, which was covered with