There were older rainbow filters after the gay marriage ruling but most of those links have expired. The one above is new though.
Go to the GLAAD face book page and there’s an option to do that. It will show a rainbow flag and a statement ‘we are Orlando’. I do believe this app requires a new photo though.
When the Paris massacres happened, I happened upon something where I could click on it,and it put the Red/White/Blue filter on my existing profile pic. Nothing like that here for this tragedy?
For what it’s worth, over half of my active FB friends are LGBTQ+ and basically the rest are allies. I don’t think I know a single person who changes their fb picture to those filters anymore. My generation is tired of the slacktivism and there is a big push back against it… and adding a filter just seems belittling.
I’m not saying this is true for everyone but this is just what I’ve seen around these parts.
ETA if you do want to change your picture, Google “Facebook orlando filter”
How can we stop this? I have no idea because there are so many people who hate so much. How do we stop this?
I have no answers because my answers are to let people be who they are which the haters won’t accept.
How do you stop absolute hate, bigotry, racism, homophobia and anti-Americanism. ( if there is such a word)
I do not know and it scares the heck out of me. How do we get people to accept what they do not personally believe or follow, yet allow others to who do believe or follow?
How do we as a diversified America get along. We have been so proud to be a melting pot. Why are we hating each other now? I cried when Lin-Manuel Miranda said his sonnet and said love, love, love,love, love, love.
teri, here’s another one. No overlays, though. https://www.romper.com/p/orlando-pride-facebook-filters-to-use-because-the-lgbt-community-needs-support-12388
One of my D’s friends has a small black banner at the bottom of her profile pic saying “We are Orlando” and with a tiny rainbow flag. I’ll see if I can find something on that.
ETA -Here it is: https://mic.com/articles/146047/how-to-change-your-facebook-photo-to-we-are-orlando-and-pride-flag-after-pulse-shooting#.t8RmHg7yK
^^ Sorry, I see it’s already been mentioned.
“How do we as a diversified America get along. We have been so proud to be a melting pot. Why are we hating each other now?”
A lot of what you’ve been hearing lately is the usual political rhetoric. It will simmer down, shortly. And as far as hating each other, while you see some ugliness in this country (and that’s what gets on the news), it really isn’t that much. Compare it to many places in the rest of the world, and it seems trivial. Most people get along, and better every year, in my opinion.
With 320,000,000 people and as many guns, crazy and homicidal individuals are inevitable. It doesn’t mean that society as a whole is broken or that everybody hates each other.
There is definitely something in post 370 that proves our society is broken imo…
Busdriver, I’m sure you can understand that (especially right now) someone who’s an LGBT person or parent of an LGBT person (or both), who would have to be a hermit entirely cut off from the world to ever have a single day go by without seeing or hearing expressions of hatred towards LGBT people – from a wide variety of perspectives – might look askance at your statement that there “really isn’t that much” ugliness in this country. Sure it’s better than 100 years ago. I didn’t live 100 years ago. Sure it’s better than living in Saudi Arabia or Iran or Uganda or Russia. I don’t live in any of those places. I live here and now, and so does my son. And what you say doesn’t feel true to me. Not today, at least.
I haven’t come across ANY media sources that have not mentioned that it was gay nightclub. I haven’t sensed anyone is trying to sweep this massacre under the rug.
There are so many stories floating around about this tragedy. If he was indeed gay, and very much closeted, I see why he chose his target. This story is so very sad.
What scares me is that I just found out that to modify an AR-15 to be fully automatic is apparently extremely easy…there exists a technology called “slide fire” where it’s a modified stock that allows a shooter to use the momentum of a free-floating stock to mimic a machine gun with what is called “bump firing”…even worse is that the ATF does not define this as a machine gun because the gun action is still technically semi-automatic and thus not regulated under the NFA. That means someone with just a $600-$800 AR-15 can buy this $200 kit that turns their gun into basically a fully automatic assault rifle versus spending $15,000+ for a genuine pre-ban assault rifle. Essentially this allows someone to pull a trigger many times obscenely fast and avoid it being defined as a machine gun all while shooting as fast as one.
Dear god to even think that all someone needs to do to make a machine gun out of an AR-15 is a ten minute modification is horrific and that the ATF can’t do anything about this…
One of my friends showed me his modified AR-15 with the slide fire and he was acting like it was funny to have something like this to say “screw the government”. I was horrified and embarrassed to see this weapon as a gun owner myself…
I don’t want to start a gun control argument. I was just genuinely horrified to find this out about AR-15s. To even imagine a mass shooter with something like this where they can fire 100 rounds in 6-7 seconds with a simple modification to an AR-15 is jaw dropping scary to contemplate…
Yeah… That’s like blaming the landlord of the NY Twin Towers for not installing sturdier window blinds.
Wish they could deport that guy.
I wonder if he’s now in the watchlist ?
Reports that the shooter was a closet homosexual. He was a regular at the Pulse for 3 years-- far too long to simply be casing the joint.
GMT,
I too have wondered about his friendly presence there, especially with the security guard. As a regular, he wouldn’t pose a threat. If he was there often, I expect men who have talked or danced with him will come forward. So far, all I’ve heard is that he sat at the bar.
I can’t yet look at the pictures of these young people.