Town holds candlelight vigil to honor victims of Orlando shooting

“We are them, we are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual”, said Magoon.

Members of the Greenwich community gathered Monday night at First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich to show support for one another and for the victims of the mass shooting that occurred in Orlando, FL early Sunday morning.

The United Church of Christ was full of people looking for answers and praying for the families of the victims. Our local gay bars understand that very well, so it is fitting that they were the ones to organize this vigil and invite PACE to participate as Northwest Louisiana’s leading advocacy organization for the LGBT community.

“The Huntington Police Department serves the entire community”, Cicarelli said.

Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer said he had been uplifted by the way the community has come together following a city-wide prayer service for the victims.

“They were just trying to have a good time and then go home, and some of them never made it home”, said Anderson.

In the city that was the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery carried on its rich heritage Monday night, celebrating love, equality and unity in the wake of one of our country’s worst tragedies.

Dixon said although 49 innocent victims were murdered, the shooter also lost his life and sadness should be felt for all. “Community is a word I would use to define the LGBT people”, says Mitchell Hammonds with the Charleston Pride Festival.

She said this awful time is an opportunity to decide to not live in our living rooms any more, but reach out and do something.

“We proclaim, even in the midst of this heartbreak and even though the sorrow is unimaginable”, Gordon said.

When she heard about the massacre in Orlando, Rachelle said her heart ached.

G.I. PFLAG Vice President Danielle Rainbolt said the last 24 hours have been hard.