The People at Pulse

On the night of June 12th, 2016, a gunman armed with assault weapons entered the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and started shooting. Forty-nine people were killed, and dozens of others were injured. Many of the people in the club were members of the L(esbian), G(gay), B(isexual), T(ransgender), and Q(ueer) community; many were members of the Latinx community; many were members of both simultaneously. There were also friends, family, and allies of those belonging to other communities at the club that night. Only a handful are commemorated by individual name and / or image in this collection, but the presence of all those killed and injured suffuses every comic. Grief over their loss and suffering is juxtaposed, sometimes within the same comic, with celebration of individual lives; with the power and value of the communities within which those individual lives were lived...