teenwitched:

i seriously want to crawl in a hole over the orlando shooting and i’m sure many of you do too but

i hope as pride month continues in the shadow of something so unspeakably hateful and heartless and evil, we can take this horrific loss and let it make us loving, defiant, proud, determined to honor the lives lost and demonstrate how much farther we demand to move forward against hate and homophobia. i hope we can speak the names of the people whose lives were taken away from them in the same breath as the thousands we lost to aids, to hate crimes, to suicide, to homelessness, and we can be strong for them. 

it’s an extremely harsh reminder of what pride month has always really been rooted in. let’s support each other through this. let’s speak the truth of what happened: a terrorist act motivated by hate. let’s be proud of one another, proud of the people we lost, who were out just having drinks and dancing and celebrating pride weekend with their friends in what was supposed to be a safe space. they were family. they are family. let’s grieve them, and let’s reclaim our safe spaces again. let’s march for them.