This year's Pride month is an opportunity to remember and honor the people slain at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando on June 12, 2016.
Thousands of organizations and individuals from across the country have joined the campaign #HonorThemWithAction: 49 ways of raising awareness about the local and national work being done to confront homophobia and transphobia in communities across the U.S.
Violence of the Pulse tragedy shook the LGBTQ community to the core, especially queer people of color because the victims were disproportionately Black and Latinx.
Even before Pulse, LGBTQ communities throughout the United States have been grappling with increased discrimination, bullying and violence, especially among communities of color. Closer to home, the LGBTQ advocacy group One Colorado conducted research and published the 2013 report Facing Barriers: Experiences of LGBT People of Color in Colorado. The report was developed using analysis of previously collected data from prior studies of LGBT Coloradans. Among the report’s key findings:
What can we do to combat these distressing trends? The Remember Pulse: 49 Days of Action Campaign as part of #HonorThemWithAction provides 49 action ideas over the course of seven weeks in honor of each of the lives taken at Pulse Nightclub.
Every Monday, people who sign up for the campaign will receive a list of seven possible actions for that week. These actions will include ways to reflect on Pulse, but will also highlight ways to take action on the platform issues of the Equality March for Unity and Pride: biphobia; disability rights; elder rights; faith and religion; HIV/AIDS; immigration justice; indigenous/two-spirit; income inequality; international; legislative issues; racial justice; reproductive justice; transphobia; violence; and youth. Sign up here to join the campaign
In honor of the 49 victims of gun violence who died on that fateful night, Colors of Influence honors them with a humble tribute, displaying their names and pictures below. Their lives and light will never be forgotten.
Thousands of organizations and individuals from across the country have joined the campaign #HonorThemWithAction: 49 ways of raising awareness about the local and national work being done to confront homophobia and transphobia in communities across the U.S.
Violence of the Pulse tragedy shook the LGBTQ community to the core, especially queer people of color because the victims were disproportionately Black and Latinx.
Even before Pulse, LGBTQ communities throughout the United States have been grappling with increased discrimination, bullying and violence, especially among communities of color. Closer to home, the LGBTQ advocacy group One Colorado conducted research and published the 2013 report Facing Barriers: Experiences of LGBT People of Color in Colorado. The report was developed using analysis of previously collected data from prior studies of LGBT Coloradans. Among the report’s key findings:
- LGBT people of color experience higher rates of both employment and housing discrimination than white LGBT people.
- While similar levels of LGBT people of color and white LGBT people experience fear of differential treatment from their medical provider, a significantly greater percentage of LGBT people of color report having actually been refused treatment by a medical provider because they are LGBT.
- LGBT people of color and white LGBT people report similar levels of anti-LGBT bullying while in middle and high school. However, LGBT people of color reported greater levels of anti-LGBT physical violence than did white LGBT people.
- LGBT people of color report experiencing daily or more frequent experiences of homophobia, transphobia, and anti-LGBT harassment in the last year in workplaces, schools, public establishments, and on the street.
What can we do to combat these distressing trends? The Remember Pulse: 49 Days of Action Campaign as part of #HonorThemWithAction provides 49 action ideas over the course of seven weeks in honor of each of the lives taken at Pulse Nightclub.
Every Monday, people who sign up for the campaign will receive a list of seven possible actions for that week. These actions will include ways to reflect on Pulse, but will also highlight ways to take action on the platform issues of the Equality March for Unity and Pride: biphobia; disability rights; elder rights; faith and religion; HIV/AIDS; immigration justice; indigenous/two-spirit; income inequality; international; legislative issues; racial justice; reproductive justice; transphobia; violence; and youth. Sign up here to join the campaign
In honor of the 49 victims of gun violence who died on that fateful night, Colors of Influence honors them with a humble tribute, displaying their names and pictures below. Their lives and light will never be forgotten.
Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old
Amanda L. Alvear, 25 years old
Oscar A. Aracena Montero, 26 years old
Rodolfo Ayala Ayala, 33 years old
Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
Angel Candelario-Padro, 28 years old
Juan Chavez Martinez, 25 years old
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
Cory James Connell, 21 years old
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
Simón Adrian Carrillo Fernández, 31 years old
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
Peter Ommy Gonzalez Cruz, 22 years old
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old
Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old
Frank Hernandez, 27 years old
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
Javier Jorge Reyes, 40 years old
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25 years old
Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
Brenda Marquez McCool, 49 years old
Gilberto R. Silva Menendez, 25 years old
Kimberly Jean Morris, 37 years old
Akyra Monet Murray, 18 years old
Luis Omar Ocasio Capo, 20 years old
Geraldo A. Ortiz Jimenez, 25 years old
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
Jean Carlos Nieves Rodríguez, 27 years old
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano-Rosado, 35 years old
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old
Yilmary Rodríguez Solivan, 24 years old
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24 years old
Juan Pablo Rivera Velázquez, 37 years old
Luis Sergio Vielma, 22 years old
Franky Jimmy DeJesus Velázquez, 50 years old
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old
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| Image courtesy of National Black Justice Coalition |