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REMEMBERING the victims of the orlando shooting

gay suffrage has dedicated AN entire page to remember the victims of this HORRIFIC event
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Let us remember who was lost.
Gay Suffrage refuses to acknowledge any news on the shooter and to focus on the victims, they are the ones we wish to remember.

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Stanley Almodovar III Age 23
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Rodolfo Ayala Age 33
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Jonathan Camuy Age 24
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Simon Carrillo Age 31
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Tevin Eugene Crosby Age 25
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Leroy Valentin Fernandez Age 25
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Juan Ramon Guerrero Age 22
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Miguel Angel Honorato Age 30
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Jason Benjamin Josaphat Age 19
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Alejandro Barrios Martinez Age 21
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Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez Age 25
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Geraldo Ortiz-Jimenez Age 25
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Enrique L. Rios Age 25
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Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado Age 35
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Edward Sotomayor Jr. Age 34
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Juan Rivera Velazquez Age 37
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Oscar Aracena Age 26
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Antonio Davon Brown Age 29
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Angel Luis Candelario-Padro Age 28
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Luis Daniel Conde Age 39
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Anthony Luis Laureano Disla Age 25
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Mercedez Marisol Flores Age 26
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Paul Terrell Henry Age 41
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Jimmy De Jesús Age 50
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Eddie Jamoldroy Justice Age 30
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Juan Chavez Martinez Age 25
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Kimberly Morris Age 37
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Joel Rayon Paniagua Age 31
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Eric Ivan Ortiz Rivera Age 36
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Christopher Sanfeliz Age 24
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Shane Evan Tomlinson Age 33
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Luis Vielma Age 22
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Jerald Arthur Wright Age 31
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Amanda Alvear Age 25
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Darryl R. Burt II Age 29
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Omar Capo Age 20
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Cory James Connell Age 21
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Deonka Deidra Drayton Age 32
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Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz Age 22
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Frankie Hernandez Age 27
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Javier Jorge-Reyes Age 40
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Christopher Leinonen Age 32
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Brenda Lee Marquez McCool Age 49
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Akyra Murray Age 18
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Jean Carlos Mendez Perez Age 35
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Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez Age 27
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Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan Age 24
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Martin Benitez Torres Age 33
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Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon Age 37

Meet some of the Heroes

Joshua McGill

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​Nightclub hero makes tourniquet to save man's life 05:04
Joshua McGill and his friends fled the Pulse nightclub after hearing multiple loud bangs. McGill hid behind a car in a parking lot when he noticed a man with multiple gunshot wounds to his arms and back.
The man was Rodney Sumter Jr., a 27 year-old bartender at the club. McGill, a nursing student, pulled Sumter behind the car and used his shirt to make a tourniquet on Sumter's arms. Then he helped the man to a safe area and used the victim's shirt to stop the bleeding on his back.
"I told him 'Everything would be OK,'" the 26 year-old told CNN's Don Lemon. "'I got you, just calm down. I need to cut off as much blood as I can.'"
McGill rode with Sumter to the hospital to keep pressure on the wounds and help him stay calm and alert.
"'I promise you, God's got this. You'll be OK,'" he recalled saying. "I was mainly scared. I was like 'God, don't make me break my promise.'"
McGill later learned Sumter was in stable condition.

Christopher Hansen

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​Saturday night was Christopher Hansen's first time at Pulse. He was at the nightclub by himself and was zigzagging out of the club when he came across a young woman who was shot in the arm.
"I'm not going to leave these victims behind," he told CNN's New Day. "I wanted to make sure she was alert. I was not leaving her until she was assisted."
Hansen also helped a club bartender and made sure she was safe while she searched for her girlfriend in the crowd.

Ray Rivera

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​Ray Rivera, a.k.a DJ Infinite, was the DJ at the nightclub on the patio. He told CNN's Erin Burnett that it was around 2 a.m. and he was spinning some mellow reggae music to signal it was almost time for guests to leave. Then he heard a noise.
"So I kind of bring the music down a little bit," he said, "And I heard it again and I turned the music all the way off. And I hear it again and that's when everybody came barreling out to get out and was, you know, jumping over fences and stuff."
He said a man and woman took cover beneath his DJ booth.
"The guy, he took off, and the girl was down there panicking, so I kind of told her she needed to be quiet. And as soon as there was a break in the shots, I kind of just pushed her and said, 'Come on, let's go.' And we ran out the door and the cops were having us go around the corner where there were no bullets or anything."

Edward Sotomayor Jr

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​Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34, was one of the first victims identified in the mass shooting at Pulse.
He died trying to shield his boyfriend from a hail of bullets. Nicknamed "Tophat Eddie" for the black top hat he always wore, Sotomayor was a brand manager for the LGBTQ online travel agency ALandCHUCK.travel.

​Samuel Maldonado

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​Samuel Maldonado had a table set up where he and his partner were selling fritters at the nightclub. When gunshots rang out, Maldonado and his partner hid under the table, which was covered by a black linen tablecloth.
"We literally saw people just running, and then we saw this young lady in blood and she just collapsed," he told HLN's Mike Galanos.
The shooter began walking towards the courtyard, so Maldonado pulled the girl under the table as she was screaming.
"I went on top of her and covered her mouth as strong as I could so he would not hear us," he said.
Suddenly, the shooter turned around and took aim at people who had already been shot. Maldonado and the woman made a run for it.
"I grabbed this young girl and I threw her first and I was able to go and as soon as I did, I saw the police officers."

Brenda Lee Marquez McCool

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​Brenda Lee Marquez McCool was enjoying a night of dancing with her 21 year-old son Isaiah Henderson.
Another son, Mike Marquez, said that his mother saw the gunman and pushed his brother out of harm's way.
Henderson managed to escape and survived. Unfortunately, McCool, a mother of eleven, was killed.
"I want my mother to be remembered as a great person, a person who loved you no matter what color, no matter what ethnicity, no matter what sexual orientation." Marquez said. "I want her to be remembered as a loving and caring person."

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