‘Sanctuary’ After Pulse: We Cannot Let the Orlando Shooter Win
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Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo (‘Memories of a Penitent Heart’), an Orlando native, writes about the sanctuary provided by gay clubs in the wake of the mass murder at the Pulse club.
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I went to my first gay club in Gainesville, Florida, in 1999. I was 19—a chubby, bookish virgin who’d hightailed it out of Orlando right after high school.
