Hate to hear this:There was a massacre at a LGBT nightclub in Orlando on Sunday.
But we have the free religion,So you can not do this you might not have known that, if you read some of the initial accounts by outlets likeThe New York Times. The word “gay” wasn’t mentioned in headlines at first—a meaningful early signal of a wider denial that bloomed Sunday in the media, and on the part of commentators, as the story of Omar Mateen’s dreadful massacre continued to unfold.
But we have the free religion,So you can not do this you might not have known that, if you read some of the initial accounts by outlets likeThe New York Times. The word “gay” wasn’t mentioned in headlines at first—a meaningful early signal of a wider denial that bloomed Sunday in the media, and on the part of commentators, as the story of Omar Mateen’s dreadful massacre continued to unfold.
As it does, a man in Los Angeles has been arrested, allegedly on his way to the city’s Pride parade in West Hollywood, armed with assault rifles and explosive devices.
Whether LGBTs are coming under sustained, or any kind of co-ordinated attack during Pride month is unknown. There has been no specific threat received in New York, James P. O’Neill of the NYPD told CBS News.
What needs to be repeated over and over again, and interrogated, is that the largest mass shooting in American history was an attack on gay people, LGBT people—politicians and lawmakers must say that,confront that, call it by its terrible, rightful name.
On social media, there is not just grief but also anger on the part of LGBT people, not just at the terrible loss of life, but of the erasure of LGBT people from a narrative that is centered on them, that has been visited upon LGBTs during Pride month. Those marches—in recent times, customized as “celebration”—will become far more moving and indelibly political, and rightly so.
Only President Obama, in his moving and concise remarks at the White House, recognized this for what LGBTs feel in the marrow of their bones—that this was an attack on them, as well as an act of terror.
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