konguloarkonan:

Wonderful, all of these fucking family values politicians are going to pretend to care about the LGBT community because the shooter was named Omar. Fuck you. Fuck YOU. You don’t give a fuck about the FIFTY people who died. You don’t give a fuck about the FIFTY-THREE people still in the hospital. You don’t give a fuck about the fact that this is the worst mass shooting in American history and it was a homophobic hate crime. You just want a safe rhetorical cudgel that you can use to bash Muslims, and then when you’re done you’ll go go back to fighting for MSM blood laws and religious-based denial of service, defunding PrEp programs, letting trans and gay panic defenses excuse murderers, installing policemen at public bathrooms, demanding guns as American birthright and equal marriage as morally unsound, go back to fighting conversion therapy bans - go back to killing us. Fuck you. FUCK. YOU.

stellasgibson:

This isn’t just another shooting. 

This is now officially, with over 50 casualties, the worst mass shooting in United States history. And the fact that it took place at a gay club was not merely coincidence. This was not just another act of senseless violence in America. This was a hate crime. 

A man walked into a safe space for the LGBT community with an assault rifle and lined them up and slaughtered them. 

Don’t do what the media is inevitably going to do. Don’t erase where this happened and who this happened to.

When you make your statements for/against gun control, remember this was a hate crime. When you make your statements about the gunman’s reported religious beliefs, remember this was a hate crime. When your politicians make empty promises about changing the way things are, remember this was a hate crime. When you make your statements about the media’s coverage of this, remind everyone this was hate crime. 

Do not gloss over the identities of the victims. They were killed for them. This was a hate crime. 

ugly-bread:

“Gays already have the right to marry in the US, what more do you want???”
I don’t know, how about not getting killed in our own bars, clubs, and other LGBT+ spaces?

straightallies:

the lgbt community has a big problem with ignoring the the people who came before them.

in the 70s, a lot of lgbt people who were older criticized the younger lgbt people for being insensitive to people who lived before stonewall (example: calling radical gay/homophile groups like the mattachine society or the daughters of bilitis useless or liberal for not being as confrontational, even though they were being threatened with murder every day).

and a lot of lgbt people who survived the AIDS crisis are criticising the younger generation for being insensitive to them (example: minimizing the oppression that gay men face, or using the concept of “allosexual privilege” to say that gay men are privileged for their sexuality).

and already young people are acting like same-sex marriage does not really matter. some young lgbt people do not remember when a gay couple being married was unimaginable.