Old Compton Street, Soho, London, June 13th 2016. Thousands of LGBT people and their friends converge on Old Compton Street in London's Soho to remember the fifty lives lost in the attack on gay bar Pulse in Orlando, Florida. PICTURED: Pink carnations are held aloft as thousands remember the victims in Orlando. Credit: Paul Davey/Alamy Live News
Thousands of LGBT people annd their supporters flood Old Compton Street in London for a vigil to commemorate the murder of 50 people in Orlando, Florida's Pulse nightclub, a gay venue where Omar Mateen opened fire on the crowd. The vigil's focal point was The Admiral Duncan pub, which in 1999 suffered a nail bomb attack by Neo-Nazi David Copeland, in which three people were killed and over 70 injured, the crowd was joined by leading political figures including London's Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan. A performance by the London Gay Men's Chorus of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" followed an immaculately observed two-minute silence, bring tears to many an eye.
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Location: Old Compton Street, London, United Kingdom
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