Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando police headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub. It was a normal Saturday night at Pulse nightclub in downtown Orlando, Florida. "Many of my friends growing up saw Pulse as a safe place to find ourselves free from the judgement we faced elsewhere. Melissa, an Orlando native who used to frequent Pulse before moving to New York, said the nightclub holds a special place in her heart. "As a genderqueer and bisexual individual growing up in Orlando, Pulse truly was a place of refuge for me in a very confusing time," she said in an email.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2016 21:00 UTC