How Orlando's LGBTQ Latino community is healing and mobilizing five years after the Pulse...

Joél Junior Morales was at Pulse the week before a gunman killed 49 people there.

Morales had moved to Orlando a few years earlier in search of his "people" -- namely LGBTQ people and fellow Puerto Ricans. He found them, but Orlando's queer Latino community was less visible in the years before the devastating mass shooting.
"It was a community, but it was kind of, like, in pockets," he said. "It wasn't anything outside of the nightclubs."
So he frequented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studded drag shows and bachata-sountracked "Latin Nights." The bar on Orange Avenue was one of the few places where his fellow LGBTQ Latinos felt at home in their city.