If you can spare any money to donate to this Family who’s mother was killed in the Orlando Pulse massacre please do. She leaves behind 11 children, if you can’t, please help spread the word by reblogging 😔
This is my friend Drew, on the right in the top pic and in the yellow pants in the bottom (back in my ~days as a twink~ 7 years ago). His boyfriend Juan is the other guy in the top pic, I’m just hearing that Juan died in surgery.
Drew’s still missing. I hope he’s okay but it’s hard to be optimistic now. I can’t lie and say we were close, we just hung out a couple times in our group of friends and have been Facebook friends since. I’ve lost touch with most Orlando friends from college. if he’s indeed gone I wish I had gotten to know him more than I did - he was super smart and kind and so comfortable in his own skin. He had so many friends. There’s probably a thousand people thinking of him now.
Most people probably won’t remember him. I don’t really remember the names and faces of other shooting victims, but the names and faces of the shooters are seared into my memory. It’ll probably be the same thing here for most people.
But I’ll always remember Drew. I hope he’s okay. Keep him in your thoughts please.
Rest in peace Christopher Andrew Leinonen (1984-2016). I wish I’d known you better, friend. Kind of bummed that I posted about Donald Trump and it’s getting hundreds of notes compared to this - I dunno how tacky it is to ask for reblogs, but if you could pass this post around, I’d really like people to see it so they can put faces to this nightmare.
Rebel Magazine filmed this live session back in the spring on the rooftop of a UC Irvine parkade.
Brian Vu from Rebel Magazine filmed this amazing three-way collaboration cover between myself, and my good friends Rachel Levy of Kiss Kiss Fantastic and Happy Trendy. I miss this so much.
