Orlando’s sports teams - the NBA’s Magic, the men’s and women’s pro soccer teams and local hockey team and arena football - are selling #OrlandoUnited T-shirts emblazoned with rainbow hearts. That said, Stern said he also hopes the Pulse tragedy will be remembered as more than something that happened to the LGBT community, or something that happened to the city of Orlando. He hopes it will help push the campaign for stricter laws limiting access to guns. Just next door to Woodstock, another popular gay bar and hotel in Orlando, the Parliament House, was open for business. Patrons were enjoying drinks and catching up as they usually would, but many of the conversations have been a bit more serious, a bit more somber.
Tim Evanicki, the entertainment manager at Parliament House, said the bar has been in Orlando for 41 years and has always been open at times of crisis for their community - this time is no different.
