Colorlines talks to Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera about their new book, “lo terciario/the tertiary,” which revisits Karl Marx’s “Capital” to examine Puerto Rico’s debt crisis from a queer decolonial lens.

The episode, which premiered last night, focuses on four survivors of the massacre of a largely-Latinx group of 49 people.

Orlando Cruz, who lives in Puerto Rico, lost four friends in the nightclub massacre.

While the murder of 49 mostly Latinx and LGBT people at Pulse Orlando has faded from headlines, the local community still works to move forward.

“He adored Latinos, gay Latinos, with brown skin—but he felt rejected,” the man told Univision.

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, B.D. Wong and more sing “What The World Needs Now,” to raise funds for LGBTQ advocacy.

Senator Chris Murphy: “We knew breaking the NRA’s stranglehold on this Congress would be a long, uphill climb.”

The reclusive artist referenced Orlando and the North Carolina anti-trans bathroom bill in a new Tumblr post.

The Department of Justice and FBI released a full transcript—rather than the previously announced version with redacted sections about Mateen’s allegiance to ISIS—after criticism from lawmakers.

“It’s not the worst thing to do.”

The three acclaimed writers sat down for a public conversation at New York City’s Ambassador Theatre.

Say their names.

“You get paid almost $200,000 a year to write rules, to make our society better. Not tweet, not tell us about your ‘thoughts and prayers.’ To write rules to make our society better.”

“It’s an LGBT issue, a Puerto Rican issue and a Latinx issue,” said creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez about the Pulse massacre.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and 38 of his colleagues stay up half the night to advocate for congressional action in the wake of the Pulse Orlando shooting.

Michelle Obama, Loretta Lynch, Shonda Rimes and many more prominent women spoke at the White House convening.

Yas Ahmed of Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity reflects on post-Pulse Islamophobia, the power of community and what it is to be a “queer, Muslim, gender non-conforming, Arab, mixed-race, able-bodied ​person of color” today.

The actor, who lost family member Brenda Lee Márquez McCool in the massacre, criticized those who don’t acknowledge the tragedy’s predominantly queer Latinx victims.

“We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests that entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop? The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer—they were all U.S. citizens.”

Helen Ubiñas on Philly.com: “It likely will take more time than that during the forthcoming round of vigils to respectfully read the names of the more than 100 people who were killed or injured.”