Susan's Place Logo

News:

Since its founding in 1995 Susan's Place forums have blossomed into a truly global lifeline. To date we've delivered roughly 1.4 billion page views to hundreds of millions of unique visitors, guided more than 41,000 registered members through 1,985,081 posts and 188,474 topics across 193 boards, and—most importantly—helped save tens of thousands of lives by connecting people to vital information and support at their most vulnerable moments.

Main Menu

Meet the Trans Performer Who Narrowly Escaped the Pulse Shooting (Video)

Started by stephaniec, June 24, 2016, 07:40:59 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

stephaniec

June 24, 2016, 07:40:59 AM
Meet the Trans Performer Who Narrowly Escaped the Pulse Shooting (Video)

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/6/20/meet-trans-performer-who-narrowly-escaped-pulse-shooting-video

The Advocate/BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM JUNE 20 2016 7:14 PM EDT

"Out MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts today sat down with one of the headlining entertainers who'd taken the stage at Orlando's Pulse nightclub June 11, just hours before the popular LGBT club became the site of the worst mass shooting in American history.

Jasmine Jimenez, a transgender Latina and performer known to her fans as Jasmine International, was a headliner at Pulse's weekly Latin Night and had concluded her performance just a short time before gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in the early hours of June 12, killing 49 people and wounding another 53. Jimenez told Roberts that she lost more than a dozen friends in the unprecedented hate crime — and narrowly escaped becoming one of the victims herself. "
  •  
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions