He hopes it will help push the campaign for stricter laws limiting access to guns. That said, Stern said he also hopes the Pulse tragedy will be remembered as more than something that happened to the LGBT community, or something that happened to the city of Orlando. Orlando’s sports teams - the NBA’s Magic, the men’s and women’s pro soccer teams and local hockey team and arena football - are selling #OrlandoUnited T-shirts emblazoned with rainbow hearts. Straight allies like President Obama and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer have spoken passionately and publicly in support of the gay community. Stern said the show of support for LGBT people in Orlando on the national and local levels has been unlike anything he’s seen before in the aftermath of an act of violence against the community. “He was amazing, one of the sweetest persons you would ever meet in your life.
He used to dance at Woodstock and was beloved by everyone there. Leigh Stern, operations manager at Woodstock (at right), with his friend, shooting victim Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado.
