Forty-Nine. There were Forty-nine people killed in Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12th, 2016. Until October 1st of the next year, this was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. After the incident, the media began to spread the idea that the attack was not motivated by sexual orientation. This was not true. The shooter was Omar Mateen, a 29 year old security guard. According to his father, Mateen had previously expressed his distaste for LGBT people. This can be related to the Charleston church shooting on June 17th, 2015. Nine African American people were shot and killed by Dylann Roofe in a racially motivated massacre. Six weeks after the shooting, Roofe said, “I would like to make it crystal clear, I do not regret …show more content…
Examples of this would be the 1963 civil rights march, the 1982 anti-nuclear march, and the 2004 march for women's lives. All of these marches aimed to grab the attention of authorities in order to change something that was believed to be the work of injustice. Often, when a march or riot like these happens, it divides the country. We become separated between the people who believe that marches are necessary and those who believe in obeying our government, even in trying …show more content…
It was also illegal to crossdress in any way. This resulted in LGBT people flocking to gay bars and clubs, which were seen as safe spaces. In the mid-1960s, the Stonewall Inn was purchased and turned into a gay bar and inn. In 1969, the bar was raided by police, resulting in a 6 day riot. While this event is seen as the most important stepping stone in the fight for human rights in America, it did not work immediately. On the ten year anniversary of this monumental event, a peaceful march was planned.The march began at the National Mall and ended near the Washington Monument. It was called “The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights”. Between 75,000 and 125,000 gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, and straight allies attended it and it was led up by another march in 1987. In the march, a man named Allen Young gave a speech. The closing of the speech was as follows: “Today in the capital of America, we are all here, the almost liberated and the slightly repressed; the butch, the femme and everything in-between; the androgynous; the monogamous and the promiscuous; the masturbators and the fellators and the tribadists; men in dresses and women in neckties; those who bite and those who cuddle; celebates and pederasts; diesel dykes and nelly queens; amazons and size queens, Yellow, Black, Brown, White, and Red; the shorthaired and the