The night of the Pulse nightclub shooting I was in Houston, TX dancing in a gay club from the area with a friend. At the same time when the shooting started, I was leaving the club to start making my way back to the hotel whereI was staying. I was tipsy and remembered getting notifications of a “developing situation” in a nightclub in Orlando. I went to bed, telling myself I would find out more in the morning but with a lingering thought in my head: we are never really safe in America.
See that could’ve been me in a nightclub in NY. That could’ve been my brother or his partner in the bay area. That could’ve been one of my friends. No one deserves to die like this. Nightclubs are safe spaces for the marginalized and the free souls and dance floors are the greatest equalizer of them all. Dancefloors are safe spaces for everyone to feel and be who they are and it feels forbidden to invade such a sacred space, just like a place of worship or a school.
It’s been four years since the Pulse shooting today…
--June 2020
