To be in a place where I could know that my Latinidid

was not at stake, that my Latinidididid is actually very much about my

sexuality and that LGBTQ Latinos are actually a lifeblood of our culture.

That's so incredibly freeing.

Welcome to In the Thick, this is the podcast about politics that examines the changing political

climate through a diverse lens with voices that you probably don't often hear from a lot.

My name is Maria Inu Hosa.

You can sense the difference in tone.

This is a difficult moment for all of us.

Of course, the tragedy in Orlando is in fact a particularly American one

because it brings together so many different parts of who we are,

what people call intersectionality this tragedy of

diversity in so many ways this conversation this week a little bit different I'm

going to be joined as always by our political editor Julio Ricardo Barrela who's in Boston and we're also going to have with us

Veronica Bayette Flores she's a freelance writer and the co-host of Radi O'Nea

and Shari Hamid who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

welcome to in The Thick.

Hey Maria, thank you so much for having me, Maria.

Thanks for having me.

We want to start with you, Veronica, because as we know now,

the vast majority of the victims identified so far

have been Latinos and Latinos. The mainstream media... of the

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