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Forty nine people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, were murdered ten years ago today in what was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in American history. It was Latin Night at Pulse; most of the victims were gay Latino men. The deadliest act of homophobia in my lifetime. Two weeks later I marched in the Pride parade. San Francisco Pride Parade takes a moment to mourn amid revelry by Julia Prodis Sulek for the East Bay Times. The organizers of Apple’s parade contingent distributed pins to our marchers, each with the name of one of the victims on it. The pin I wore that day was for Cory Connell, a 21 year old college student. He’d be 31 today. I wonder if he would have become a firefighter like he hoped to. I wonder about the lives he could have saved. I wonder what the other 48 victims had planned for their lives, and the myriad ways the world would be different, would be better, if they were still here with us. I remember, in those two weeks between the shooting and the…