Pulse: How Orlando Fatally Failed the LGBTQ+ Community
On July 30, 2016 — a little over a month after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida — the Orlando Sentinel published an article about Pulse’s unpermitted fence. Embedded was a diagram that showed how Pulse’s exit pathways were blocked by this illegal fence; a fence that violated city codes and limited patrons’ routes to safety. Those who did escape through the nightclub’s backdoors had to knock down and jump over this six-foot-tall obstruction. As the