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[emily_in_nc]

Pax, I just wanted to say to you and all the other LGBT folks here that I am thinking about all of you. I've been reading posts from my LGBT friends on Facebook, and I can feel so much pain in their words. I don't know exactly how to express what I am feeling other than to say that I am with you in spirit and sending love, peace, hugs, and empathy. <3 <3 <3

[Pax]

Thank you, Emily, been a rough few days. Two of the kids here at work lost friends in Orlando.

[Catrin]

Thank you, Emily, been a rough few days. Two of the kids here at work list friends in Orlando.

Oh my, I just saw this. Hope you are ok. Such a terribly sad week.

[rocknrollgirl]

I feel like I no longer understand the world in which we live. I just don't get it....why does everyone hate so much.

[Crankin]

I am so tired of the "thoughts and prayers," spouted by my friend, who thinks she is liberal. The same friend, who told my husband he was "so gay," because he was wearing a V neck sweater a couple of years ago . I am just angry. I spent 2 hours yesterday, processing this with 2 of my clients, as well as another hour on Monday. I am just spent from this.

[Pax]

I hear you, Crankin. I'm helping the kids at work process this, they are so young and so bewildered, they cannot fathom that their fun, loving, wildly alive, friends are gone. Their generation has experienced the upwelling of support, both legal and cultural for gay people in America; they've never experienced this extreme hatred from their peers so it's all very startling to them.

Sadly, when I heard, I was not shocked in the slightest. My generation has grown up with this hatred, we know it's there, lurking beneath the surface of acceptance. For me it was never if, only when. I am so tired.

[OakLeaf]

((((((Pax)))))) - and hugs also to all who have lived your lives under the threat of hate.

Because the link you posted is worth a read - this forum software edits out certain words, even from links: in place of the four asterisks in the link, paste a four-letter profanity beginning with lower-case f.

I thought this one was really well written too: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement...e_are_not_okay

Take good care. My heart breaks for you. And I'm angry too, angry at things that are done in the name of my sexual orientation, my race, the religion I grew up in. May all of us straight, cis, white people also stand up and say Not One More.