holyromanhomo:

Losing so many Latinos fucking hurts.

We have such a hard time coming out, we have such little visibility, such few spaces where we can come together and celebrate being both Latino and LGBT, and I think about how excited these Latinos must have been to attend this event, something that was actually about THEM, until their excitement turned to terror. It’s just so fucking unfair.

Then to top it all off, even in death their identity is being erased and glossed over. I feel like not constantly recognizing the race/ethnicity of these victims is so disrespectful to their memory considering the last thing these people did was to celebrate being Latino before they died. So, please, always remember them for who they were and for all the intersections of their identities that made them so uniquely beautiful.