“Edgar Gomez’s ‘Alligator Tears’ Unveils the Heart-Wrenching Secrets Behind Laughter and Loss”
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I shivered with regretful knowledge, however, in this paragraph near the halfway point.
“At Pulse, you could be anyone. A Puerto Rican makeup artist who transformed into a glamorous Amazonian on stage. A butch lesbian, finally in a good place after some rough years. A Brazilian restaurateur with a Portuguese accent that didn’t fool anyone, visiting Orlando to scout out new locations. You could be yourself, whoever you couldn’t be anywhere else.”
The 2016 massacre at Pulse in Orlando ended with 49 people dead and 53 wounded. Edgar reminds us how close queer people remain to unjustifiable death in the United States and, as the news in 2025 continues to remind us, the situation is only worsening, as pointless legislative attacks on our trans siblings further encourages violence against all queer people and further emboldens the violent among us.
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