As Central Florida prepares to mark ten years since Pulse, we are asking media partners, journalists, storytellers, public officials, funders, and community messengers to help carry this remembrance with accuracy, compassion, and care.

Pulse was not only a tragedy. It was a community-shaping event that devastated LGBTQ, Latinx, Puerto Rican, immigrant, Black and Brown, survivor, faith, nightlife, artist, worker, and chosen-family communities across Orlando, Central Florida, Puerto Rico, Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond.

Responsible remembrance means telling the full story.

It means naming Latin Night.
It means remembering the 49 lives taken as whole people.
It means honoring survivors, families, loved ones, chosen families, first responders, frontline community responders, and all who continue to carry the impact of that night.
It means recognizing the communities that transformed grief into care, culture, organizing, healing, and long-term infrastructure.
It also means avoiding extractive storytelling, sensationalism, misinformation, and narratives that flatten Pulse into one institution, one voice, one site, or one simplified frame.

Contigo Fund’s 10-Year Pulse Remembrance Media Guide offers journalists and partners language, quotes, framing, safety guidance, support pathways, and community-rooted context for telling this story responsibly.

We invite media and communications partners to use this guide as a resource for coverage, interviews, public remarks, captions, partner messaging, and community education connected to the 10-year remembrance of Pulse.

Calls to action

When sharing 10 year Pulse remembrance messages, partners are encouraged to direct audiences toward clear, local, and actionable forms of support. Public remembrance should not only invite reflection. It should also help people understand where to give, how to make remembrance visible, and how to support trusted community infrastructure before a crisis. Specific forms of action include the following:

• Donate: Encourage donations to The LGBT+ Center Orlando to help sustain Orlando United Resiliency Services, also known as OURS, the long-term support pathway created for people directly and indirectly impacted by Pulse, including survivors, families, loved ones, first responders, and community members who were physically, emotionally, or psychologically harmed: contigofund.org/supportours.
• Signal Support: Make the remembrance visible. Light the way by projecting rainbow colors or displaying rainbow flags on homes, storefronts, campuses, houses of worship, community spaces, windows, bridges, landmarks, monuments, and gathering places. Share public actions with #Pulse10YearsLater and #OrlandoStrong, and tag Contigo Fund on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn so community partners can help amplify.
• Act Before Future Crises: Build robust, resilient networks of support now to keep communities protected. Volunteer or take action with trusted local organizations, leaders, artists, cultural workers, and care networks already working to support impacted communities: LGBTQ, Latinx, Black, trans, immigrant, people of faith, HIV-impacted, youth, survivor, rural, and farmworker communities, and other adjacent communities.

Questions or Media Inquiries

For further support, questions, or media inquiries, contact Contigo Fund at:

[email protected]

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