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Minnesota's LGBTQ community responds to Orlando shooting

Lighting a candle to remember the victims.
From left, Hattie Hsu, Steph Theisen, and Chandler Daily, all of St. Paul, Minn., hold candles they lit while attending a vigil held for the victims of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., at Loring Park in Minneapolis on Sunday night.
Tom Baker for MPR News

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The mass shooting in a gay nightclub in Orlando has shaken LGBTQ communities across the country.

MPR News' Marianne Combs spoke with members of Minnesota's LGBTQ community about how the news is affecting them, and about how this event fits into a long history of struggle.

Guests

• Andrea Jenkins, poet, performance artist, and Grand Marshal of last year's Twin Cities Pride parade
• shay gonzalez, executive director of RECLAIM
• Ken Darling, owner of LUSH
• Sandy Soto, associate professor of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Arizona, and editor of Feminist Formations
• Jason Bucklin, Out4Good coordinator at the Office of Student, Family & Community Engagement, Minneapolis Public Schools
• Roxanne Anderson, associate director of Trans Organizing, Outfront Minnesota