Forget 'homophobic terrorist': Here's how a Twitter user paid tribute to Orlando victims

Crowds flocked to vigils around the world on Monday in shock at the shooting of dozens of Florida club-goers in the deadliest ever attack on the gay rights movement. Thousands lined the streets in the central London district of Soho, long a hub for the gay community in Britain, bursting into chants of “We’re here, we’re queer, we will not live in fear” under rainbow flags. [caption id=“attachment_2833426” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  People gather for a vigil in memory of the victims of the Orlando mass shooting. AP[/caption] A policeman at the scene estimated the crowd at between 5,000 and 7,000-strong, as other rallies took place in cities from Berlin to Bangkok. The crowd in London released 49 brightly-coloured balloons into the sky for each one of the victims of Sunday’s massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in modern US history. As the crowds gathered in the streets, many across the world also took to social media to express their solidarity. One Twitter user, Common Gay Boy ( @CGBPosts), took it upon himself to put faces to the names of the 49 victims and compile available information on them on his handle. In a tweet, the user wrote, “Instead of focusing on the homophobic terrorist… let’s focus on the victims.” Here is the result:

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