Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a shooting in 2016, is going to be a national memorial.The U.S.
Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday giving the site the designation, and the House of Representatives had approved it in May.
President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law. Saturday will mark the fifth anniversary of the tragedy.Most of Pulse’s patrons and therefore most of the victims were LGBTQ+ and Latinx.
The shooting was the worst mass killing of LGBTQ+ people in U.S. history, surpassing the 1973 arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans, in which 32 people died.