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Feyrah — Stop Killing Us
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Published: 2016-06-14 23:32:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 15750; Favourites: 704; Downloads: 26
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My heart is with my community. Our fight isn't over. Stay Proud, keep fighting._____________________________
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"They"? Why the quotation marks? "They" is a valid pronoun, just like she or he
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this is so tragic, especially when people only care about us when they think that they are also in danger
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I just don't understand why there are people out there who think that gays and lesbians are disgusting or not appropriate. The lgbt people are just human beings! They deserve so much support. I'm still heartbroken for what happened in Orlando... at least that monster who killed those innocent people, is now dead and he won't hurt anyone else.
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I agree with you, Sexuality doesn't really matter. You like who you like.
BUT TRANNIES AND NON BINARIES CAN GET THE FUCK OUT!
P.S (Lesbians aren't real, they're just gay women. IDK why they need a different name)
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I was once a homophobe but because of what in June 12th got me to stop being homophobic. Please don't fucking use political correctness on me, I just have the freedom as well.
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I just try to remember that we are beautiful and resilient and powerful. They've been trying to eradicate us for centuries and we're still here and we're full of grace and dignity. This is beautiful.
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The fact that people had the fucking nerve to come on to this page to bash marginalized groups, along with rubbing the deaths of all those LGBT people in the mud, I find to be inexcusable. Thank you for painting this piece, Feyrah.
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The artwork is beautiful, but i'm very uninformed of the meaning, mind telling me?
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There has been a large shooting in a LGBT+ nightclub in Orlando (50 people dead, 50 more injured) by a man who hates LGBT+ people and people of color. It was a hate crime committed by a homophobic racist person. But the media is covering up the fact that it was a hate crime and because the shooter happens to be muslim, they're using this to forward their anti islam propaganda even though this wasn't a religiously motivated crime. The media aren't acknowleding that this was a hate crime committed against LGBT+ people in one of our very few safe spaces. LGBT+ people an people of color still can't leave their houses without the fear of being murdered and the media covering it up as something else. Not even in "progressive" countries like the U.S..
And we're trying to make this seen.
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I, don't know what to say, he doesn't like someone's love choice so he kills them? And the racist thing, they weren't given a choice of what color they were going to be, and they can't change what color they are. Thank you for informing me, i'll make sure to spread the word and artwork as well.
The people in this world man, I know there are good ones, but I just don't understand why they think murder is necessary just because they don't like someone.
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The fact that things like this still happens is very sicking. I can only hope that pictures like this will open people's eyes
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Proudness is with me! I will fight for my rights no matter what.
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Shootings like the one in Orlando are unforgivable... I can't believe people can be as hateful as some are, and would do such reprehensible things.
My heart goes out to anyone affected by this tragedy.
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honestly there just so much hate and death these days... this isn't the first shooting i heared about this last month. my heart goes out to you folks
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this piece is absolutely stunning. I loved the colors and the message it conveys! Don't get too upset with certain people in the comment section that are ignorant. Just ignore them or remove their comment.
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Thank you so much.
I just feel responsible for the comments on my artwork - I dont want young teenagers to see the bigoted commetns filled with hatred and base their opinion upon them. So I'd rather reply and educate, even if I do so rather harshly.
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It speaks more to your character to speak rationally to those that refuse to do so to you. It says more about your character to allow them the freedom to speak and to respond to the contrary in a civil manor. When you sink to their level you lower yourself not them. When you take their voice away to mute their freedom and yours.
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What a beautiful piece. My heart goes out to the LGBT community. I'm sorry for the tragic event that happened. I'm an ally and I stand with you. <3
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Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate your support.
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The art is beautiful and has a good meaning, but the title is misleading. The shooter wasn’t there to kill homosexuals because he was homophobic. He was there just to kill. Heterosexuals, men, women, Christians, Muslins or children. He just wanted to kill people! This club happened to became his target.
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I appreciate the compliment, and I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. The shooter's father has confirmed that this man was homophobic, hated gays and wanted us dead. His coworkers have confirmed that he was also racist and used racial slurs day in day out.
He was well prepared and well organised and targeted the Pulse Club on purpose. On Latinx night, very intentioanlly targeting LGBT+ people of color. He didn't just walk down the street and decide to go to the nearest crowded place. This was a hate crime that had been planned and organised for weeks.
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Your welcome, but info has changed.
He did plane to shot that club up. It's believed he frequented the club do to his secret homosexual life style, but it was confirmed on the news. That after going thought his computer that he was no loner interested in killing homosexuals but just killing. The info they found confirmed that he had planed to go on a killing spray. If not the night club than somewhere else, by time the night of the masacer had come. it no longer mattered whom he killed as long as he killed someone.
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Had he wanted to just kill, he would've gone to a crowded city center, such as a mall or government center or perhaps a park. He certainly wouldn't have planned months in advance to attack a gay club in the middle of the night, where realistically only around 200 people (at most) would've been, when he could've gotten to 1000 people in a mall crowded with shoppers. He was homophobic, that much has been confirmed by those close to him, and he targeted the LGBT community specifically. Even if he just wanted to kill by the time he actually carried out the shooting, that doesn't change that he originally targeted Pulse because it was a gathering place for gay people. This was a hate crime, and many people are attempting to erase the homophobic nature of this massacre so they don't have to acknowledge that homophobia kills people in large numbers, because our society is homophobic and people (straight people, anyway) don't want to accept that their sentiment is dangerous. It's the same reason people are attempting to say that Omar Mateen was only violently homophobic because he was Muslim (though he wasn't even a practicing Muslim, keep in mind). People are reluctant to accept that homophobia is alive and well in America, and it's killing people. I'm attempting to be as polite as possible, as it's more likely that your source is homophobic, but most of what you've said has been incredibly insensitive. Mateen didn't kill us because he was gay, he didn't kill us just because he wanted to kill people, he killed us because he hated us and he wanted us dead. The largest shooting in American history happened in a gathering place for LGBT people. It doesn't actually matter what the rest of the details are, it's homophobia. Someone walking into a place built for and by LGBT people to be a safe haven and opening fire, intending to kill everyone present, is old-school, violent homophobia. It's the exact same hatred as caused the death of Matthew Shepard, as caused the American government to refuse funding of research for AIDS until it started killing straight people, as caused gay men of all races and backgrounds to suffer and die alongside Jewish and Rromani people in concentration camps during WWII. The intentional and informed killing of dozens of gay people IS a hate crime, and it IS homophobia. If you can't understand and accept that, I don't know how I could convince you. I've yet to see a single LGBT person even think that this wasn't a hate crime, because we all understand the fear of violence that permeates our lives. The fear instilled from watching others like you be bloodied and beaten, raped, or abused. The fear instilled from being on-edge the entire time you're in public with your partner, when people glare and point and whisper (and that's only if you're lucky enough that no one does something to you directly). We all understand that there are plenty of people that hate us and want us to suffer, it's only straight people that I've seen that can separate this massive act of violence against us from homophobia. This killing was an act of homophobia, and there's simply no way to separate the violence from the hatred. I'm sorry that this is so long, and I'm sorry if it's hard to understand. But this is important, and I really don't believe that this is something that can be lightly discussed.
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NO. NO. NO. NO.
The information we have is that his wife drove him to Pulse and that he was there several times to "scope it out". His wife tried to talk him out of the attack, but upon recently seeing two men kissing on the street, the attacker became filled with rage and decided to go through with the massacre. He had an account on a gay dating app that he never used for dating. He was gathering info. His father confirmed that his son constantly said homophobic and racist things, which is why he picked Latinx night at a Gay club during Pride month to attack a community that he hated and wanted dead.
This is the information. This was a hate crime committed by a homophobic attacker who killed 49 queer people and injured 53 more. This is the truth.
Stop erasing our community.
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Your info is partly true but filled with pot holes, and it sound like your just picking out the facts just to suit your ownership of the shooting. Which is wrong on your part!
He as homosexually a classmate said in an interview. (That might have contributed to his trigger) That he toke interest in looking for another homosexually man. Information on his computer and cell lead investigator to believe that he had been living a homosexuall life long before he was triggered. On top of that his computer and cell also reviled that he was also an Isis follower. They also discovered that by time the day arrived for the shooting. He was so dead set on killing someone, that if he was turned away at the door of the night club, he would have just gone into another. It didn’t matter what color, gender, sexuality, or spiritual believes they had. He was out for blood!
And seriously you’re losing your shit over a differences of information?
Don’t reply to this post again. I’m not going to deal with a nut-job that cares more about claiming this, then accepting it. I will be more report you to Deviantart.
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This almost brought me to tears. I'm glad to see so much support on the web such as this beautiful piece.
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Nothing makes us better than them.
Listen, I don't know which parts of the internet you reside in, but within my community these deaths are acknowledged and mourned every single day.
That's the entire point. Why are they not mourned outside of the community?
Take a wild guess. The media. The media aren't giving any visibility to any of these deaths. As soon as it's minorities suffering, the media don't give a flying shit. Hell, this shooting didn't even properly go viral before it turned out to be the biggest shooting in the history of the U.S.
What's happening is that the media are trying to erase the fact that this was a hate crime directed against LGBT+ people of color. In a gay club, in our safe space, where we go so we don't bother people, to have fun, to be ourselves.
Instead, they are using this tragedy to their advantage to forward their anti islam propaganda, even though this crime was not religiously motivated in the slightest.
They're telling us to be happy for having marriage rights, to be satisfied. But how are we supposed to do that, when they won't even grant us our right to live? When we can't even be safe in a privileged, 'progressive' country? In our safe spaces?
We are trying to take this opportunity to make our struggles visible. Because the media sure won't.
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THINK for just a damn second.
One side is capitalizing on killing and discriminating people based on their beliefs. Using lies and fear as fuel for spreading even more lies.
My side is trying to SPARE innocent lives. I don't give a fuck if I'm "capitalizing" on anything.
This is my community, these people are my people.
It affects me personally.
I've only been out for one year.
I draw what I feel like, when I feel like it.
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Sure, you can "express" your islamophobic and homophobic opinion. But you're gonna have to do it somewhere else. Because luckily, I don't have to let you do it on my art page.
You're blocked. 
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That's just plain homophobia. It's not that we "don't like the reasons for it", it's that we're getting killed for being who we are. We didn't hijack the story, it happened to us. It's our story.
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Nothing makes us better than them. The fact that mass media doesn't acknowledge what happens in middle eastern countries doesn't make it wrong for it to acknowledge what happens in first world countries. What's wrong is that the media is ONLY paying attention to first world countries. Diminishing a tragedy, whatever tragedy it may be, in whatever country, is always wrong.
Yes, of course everyone should pay as much attention to what happens in the middle east, etc, as they do to what happens in America or Europe. Does that mean you're doing any good sitting there saying "Oh this tragedy doesn't matter and you guys aren't important"? NO. We would all be doing much better if we could acknowledge that every tragedy happening all over the world is as bit as important as the next one.
So, if you want to contribute to spreading awareness to what happens outside of first world countries, then maybe commenting something along the lines of "What happened in Orlando is horrible, and the explosions that happened in Lebanon were also horrible and it's important that we pay attention to that as well" would be way more productive than trying to diminish the importance of what happened to an already bruised, oppressed, and terrified community.
My heart goes out to the victims and families of what happened in Orlando and Lebanon on June 12.
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I was paraphrasing to emphasise my point.
Everyone knows this isn't the first, or last tragedy that's ever going to happen. But it is a tragedy nonetheless, and mourning it and calling attention to its repercussions is the right thing to do.
This is, until now, the biggest shooting in the history of the USA and the truth is that it is a HATE CRIME committed against an oppressed minority that happened in a safe space that was celebrating Latinx night during Pride week. This matters. These details are important and it's everyone's job to get the media to acknowledge them. Not only that, there was a man with a truck full of weapons and explosives on his way to Pride in LA. The LGBTQIA+ community is being targeted, and this matters.
So, yes, every tragedy counts and every tragedy is important, the same way each tragedy affects each community in different ways.
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Well, if I had asked you (which I didn't), I would have learnt (as I just did by reading your nonsensical reply) that your definition of "oppressed minority" is incorrect, and I suggest you do a little research on this term and get a bit more informed on the history of systematic oppression of the LGBTQIA+ community before you throw that term around and use it in a completely ludicrous, and unsuitable way.
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This... is so sad. Regardless of if someone supports homosexuality or not... this is wrong.
I nearly cried when I heard the news and read about some of the people killed. Such loving, sweet people with long lives ahead of them. It hurts. My heart goes out to their families <3
I can't even imagine why someone would be so extreme...
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