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A window of gay cafe in Soho plastered with solidarity signs during the London vigil for the victims of the Orlando homophobic terror attack.
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Someone started to walk in front of the camera just as I took the photo leaving a strange ghostly effect.
Many hundreds of people, some wearing rainbow flags and others carrying placards, came to Old Compton Street in London’s Soho district to show solidarity with the victims of Omar Mateen who killed 49 people and seriously injured another 53 in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida..
The large crowd could barely fit into the street and it fell silent at 7 pm as a sign of respect for all those killed and injured in America’s worst mass shooting in its modern history.
As well as activists from the Peter Tatchell foundation there were also a number of members from the “Out and Proud Diamond Group” at the vigil (for more information see below).
Peter Tatchell, the veteran human rights campaigner and head of the Peter Tatchell foundation, said
“the vigil is a huge act of solidarity and defiance. We are here, we are queer and we refuse to live in fear.”
He added that he thought the LGBT community would not be intimidated and he was confident that London’s LGBT pride on 25 June would prove to be the biggest ever.
Find out more about the Peter Tatchell Foundation and its work on various human rights issues, including LGBT rights, at www.petertatchellfoundation.org/
and on the Out and Proud Diamond Group, a Europe based African LGBTI rights group, at opdg.org/
Here are the names and ages of the 49 victims of the terror attack according to
www.cityoforlando.net/blog/victims/
Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old
Amanda Alvear, 25 years old
Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 years old
Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28 years old
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
Cory James Connell, 21 years old
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 years old
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years old
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old
Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old
Frank Hernandez, 27 years old
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25 years old
Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 years old
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 years old
Kimberly Morris, 37 years old
Akyra Monet Murray, 18 years old
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 years old
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 years old
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24 years old
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24 years old
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old
Luis S. Vielma, 22 years old
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 years old
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old
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