All The Dead Boys Look Like Me Analysis

Imagine waking up to your son messaging you at two o’clock in the morning asking you to call 911, telling you there was a shooting, and that he was trapped in a bathroom, continuing on that he loved you and that he was going to die. This is something no parent should go through. Unfortunately this was reality to Mina Justice the mother to Eddie Justice, one of the forty-nine victims whose lives were tragically taken by a gunman who opened fire in a gay nightclub on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, FL. The massacre was the deadliest act of violence to the LGBTQ community. For most of us we turn to social media to connect with others and we tried to make sense of what happened. We connect to make sure others are ok and to comfort each other. Some of us write as did Christopher Soto aka Loma, a queer Latinx punk poet, wrote the poem “All The Dead Boys Look Like Me” in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting that went viral over social media with its imagery of sadness, heartbreak, and hope. He posted the poem on his Facebook page with it being shared over and over …show more content…
(Soto) For a “brown queer” he felt attacked. Pulse was hosting Latino night and most of the victims Latino. For many gays a nightclub is a place that lets them feel as a whole, to have others that relate to them in a world that feels so unaccepting. Soto states “ I feel it, I really feel it again”, on an on air talk show on WAMU 88.5 journalist Xorje Olivares explains how hard this hit him he also being Latino and gay, “ "I just kept hearing Latin night, LGBT club, and all of it happening during Pride. It really hit close to home. It was one of those things that I thought, wow, they really went for us." (In Songs,) In society being gay is hard to be accepted with the way history reflected on homosexuality.