Look At These Amazing People Standing Up For Orlando. Look At Them.
Look for the helpers (and supporters, and caring people everywhere. pictures from vigils all around the world)
Look At These Amazing People Standing Up For Orlando. Look At Them.
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Send your thoughts and prayers, but also fucking do something.
We hear that Mr. Rogers quote “Look for the helpers” a whole lot when tragedy strikes, and we’re hearing it right now in the wake of the worst mass-shooting in modern American history, where 49 people, LGBT folks and allies, were gunned down at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
John Oliver opened his show with a special segment encouraging us to do just that (embedding disabled by request GRRRR), and he pointed us to this picture of a scene in Orlando Sunday morning, as people from all walks of life lined up around the block to give blood for the victims:
Indeed, the Orlando Sentinel reports that the response was so overwhelming that the blood banks were full by mid-day. Reports circulated that the FDA’s ban on the blood of gay men who have sex lives had been lifted. Sadly, that was not true. But people came, and they gave.
Equality Florida set up a GoFundMe for the victims’ families, and already it has raised over $2 million. That is a legit GoFundMe from a legit organization, unlike those cake-bakin’ gay-hatin’ motherfuckers who are always crowd-sourcing for cash because BOO HOO THE QUEERS ARE MAKING ME FROST THINGS. If you would like to give to it, please click the clicky.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/602919/look-at-these-amazing-people-standing-up-for-orlando-look-at-them#R4OkXCkylexlhq6P.99
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