Date
Monday, 12 Jun 2017 6:00 PM
Room 106
“49 Dead in Attack on Orlando Gay Nightclub,” read the headline on June 12, 2016.
News of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, stunned the world and shook the LGBTQ community to its core.
Two weeks later, Mayor Sylvester Turner created the City of Houston’s LGBTQ Advisory Board, appointing 49 members in honor of the 49 people who lost their lives at Pulse.
That LGBTQ Advisory Board is now planning a vigil for the Pulse victims at the Montrose Center on June 12, the one-year anniversary of the massacre. Board member Dennis Beedon is set to travel to Orlando