“I went to the Pulse Memorial and it was a perfect snapshot of what this community is. This community
made me who I am. I don’t know if I had any real context for what this community meant to me before I
went to the memorial. The memorial obviously pays tribute to the tragedy that took place there but
there’s pictures of tributes from local colleges, Disney, the Orlando Eye Ferris wheel, so many small
things that seem small and in no way connected suddenly were. I grew up here. The shooting wasn’t just
an attack at that night club, it was an attack on our community as a whole; queer Orlando.”
- Kristen - Orlando, FL
