{"id":40115,"date":"2016-06-25T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/orlando-massacre-ashamed-father-reportedly-refused-to-claim-gay-sons-body\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:20:35","slug":"orlando-massacre-ashamed-father-reportedly-refused-to-claim-gay-sons-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/orlando-massacre-ashamed-father-reportedly-refused-to-claim-gay-sons-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/nothate.jpg?resize=600%2C600\" alt=\"nothate\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/nothate.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/nothate.jpg?resize=195%2C195 195w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/nothate.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 90 percent of the people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history were of Hispanic descent.<\/p>\n<p>The Puerto Rican community was hit especially hard: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article84297262.html\">almost half of all <em>Pulse<\/em> casualties &mdash;&nbsp;23 of them &mdash; were from the island.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for one young latin <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>, the sad reality of homophobia reportedly&nbsp;made the circumstances surrounding his death even more appalling.<\/p>\n<p>Local news blog&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/orlandolatino.org\/2016\/06\/father-refused-claim-pulse-nightclub-shooting-victim\/\">The Orlando Latino<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;reported that a&nbsp;father refused to claim his son&rsquo;s body because the son was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, and the father was ashamed.&nbsp;&ldquo;The tale is part of the untold stories&nbsp;of the Latino victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre,&rdquo; the blog wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As heartbreaking as it sounds, the episode illustrates how the stigma of being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> is still very alive in the socially&nbsp;conservative island. Among Puerto Rican residents ages 35 and older, only 26 percent of the population favored the legalization of same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2014\/11\/13\/chapter-5-social-attitudes\/\">according to a 2014 Pew Research Center&nbsp;poll.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Latino didn&rsquo;t reveal the name of the victim &ldquo;so as not to further victimize the deceased, who was Puerto Rican,&rdquo; but it wrote that it&rsquo;d &ldquo;confirmed the information&nbsp;with several sources.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/victims-1.jpg?resize=195%2C195\" alt=\"victims\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/victims-1.jpg?resize=195%2C195 195w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/victims-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/victims-1.jpg?w=351 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">When the Orange County Medical Examiner and the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System started to release the names of the<em> Pulse<\/em> victims to the media, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/06\/13\/were-orlando-shooting-victims-pulse-outed-media-local-officials\/85831994\/\">the<em> USA Today<\/em>&nbsp;noted<\/a> that &ldquo;within hours, dozens of people who might have kept their sexual identity relatively private&nbsp;suddenly&nbsp;became the faces of the most deadly shooting spree in U.S. history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Many LGBT Puerto Ricans who had left the island for the continental U.S. (around 300,000 of them <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in Central Florida) were likely some of them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very touchy subject, but some of the victims&rsquo; families found out that their victim was LGBT when this happened, so they will have to do deal with that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tragic that someone has to wait until they die for their family to find out that they are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>,&rdquo; Pedro Julio-Serrano, executive director of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, a non-profit organization advocates for the inclusion of LGBT&nbsp;individuals,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/06\/puerto-rico-orlando-shooting-victims-burial-expenses\"> told <em>Mother Jones.&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, &ldquo;after much convincing, the body was released to Orlando-area relatives and he has been buried,&rdquo; wrote the Orlando Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Top photo credit:&nbsp;&nbsp;sarahmirk <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AVigil_to_mourn_Orlando's_pulse_shooting.jpg\">via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/06\/orlando-massacre\/\">Orlando Massacre: &lsquo;Ashamed&rsquo; 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The Puerto Rican community was hit especially hard: almost half of all Pulse casualties &mdash;&nbsp;23 of them &mdash; were from the island.&nbsp; But for one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/orlando-massacre-ashamed-father-reportedly-refused-to-claim-gay-sons-body\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/orlando-massacre-ashamed-father-reportedly-refused-to-claim-gay-sons-body\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Orlando Massacre: \u2018Ashamed\u2019 Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son\u2019s Body Nearly 90 percent of the people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history were of Hispanic descent. 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