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steve2470

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Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:27 AM Jun 2016

LGBT community raising millions for Orlando victims

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/06/lgbt-community-raising-millions-orlando-victims-160614042235265.html

Ask Terry DeCarlo whether he feels targeted as a gay man by the gunman in Sunday's deadly rampage at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub and he is pensive and uncertain.

Ask him how he feels about the outpouring of support for the LGBT community and the victims' families and he can barely speak.

"It's just," says DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, choking up, his eyes welling with tears.

DeCarlo, who lives in Orlando but was not at the Pulse club early on Sunday morning when the shooting occurred, has been at the forefront of the organising campaign to get money and help to the victims' families after the attack by Omar Mateen.

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LGBT community raising millions for Orlando victims (Original Post) steve2470 Jun 2016 OP
They have raised almost $5.5 million since the massacre mnhtnbb Jun 2016 #1

mnhtnbb

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1. They have raised almost $5.5 million since the massacre
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:51 AM
Jun 2016

and all the proceeds will go to benefit victims and their families.

They've also established a transparent process for distribution of the funds.

https://www.gofundme.com/PulseVictimsFund

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