I love the LGBTQ community, I love my family. I feel that through loving Christ, he will walk me out of any situation. 'I feel that I want to live in a life of purity. 'I don't want to tell everyone it's a 'gay-to-straight' thing because God is not calling me to that,' he told NBC News at the time. Ruiz was also at a Freedom March in Washington, D.C., in May. Organizers are promoting the involvement of two survivors of the Pulse shooting, Luis Javier Ruiz and Angel Colon, both of whom no longer identify as gay. The Orlando rally will take place at Lake Eloa Park, about 10 minutes away from the Pulse nightclub, which has become something of a memorial to anti-gay violence and America's mass shooting epidemic. The last Freedom March was held in June 2019 in St. The event is one of many such rallies put on across America by the Freedom March organization, which celebrates 'freedom from homosexual/transgender lifestyles by the grace and power of Jesus Christ,' according to its website. Two survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre are reportedly involved with the 'Freedom March,' slated for September 14. A rally organized by a group urging LGBT people to reject their identities and accept Jesus is coming to Orlando, Florida, the site of a 2016 mass shooting at a gay nightclub that left 49 people dead and dozens more wounded.
