Check out my Op-Ed over at Gay Star News!

On June 25, I was sitting in the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, watching the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles perform an all-Spanish concert with Mano a Mano, Cuba’s first gay men’s chorus.

During one of the songs, my mind started to drift and I found myself counting the seats in the rows in front of me.

There were 25 seats in each row and I thought about what if someone walked in with a gun and shot every single person in those two rows?

Why such morbid thoughts? Because I was at a big gathering of mostly gay people and it had been less than two weeks since a heavily-armed gunman burst into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and shot 49 people to death and injured 53 others. – Read the rest at Gay Star News.