Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub became the center of the news universe on June 12, 2016 when a shooter entered the club and murdered 49 members of our LGBTQ+ community. Eddie Sotomayor, the director of The RuPaul’s Drag Race cruise was the first name announced to the world. He worked for our Hotspots Happening Out anchor Al Ferguson. Al has told many stories of that night and that day. The mass shooting was the largest in American history as of that date. A year later the ONE PULSE FOUNDATION was formed to create scholarships, memorialize the nightclub site and build a museum community center that would ensure those lost and the effects on the entire community were never forgotten. That was more than 7 years ago. This week, all of that came to an end when ONE PULSE abruptly announced, in social media as an offense, that it would close. The Pulse owner is gone, Foundation Executive Director Deborah Bowie resigns and phone calls go unanswered.
