Brandon J. Wolf, A PLACE FOR US: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Brandon J. Wolf, a passionate LGBTQ+ activist and survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, speaks to Zibby about his raw, daring, and breathtakingly honest debut, A Place for Us: A Memoir. Brandon shares his story, from being a queer, mixed-race kid in a conservative town and losing his mother to finding community in Florida and experiencing the 2016 tragedy that killed his friends. He also shares what community and safe space means to him, the difficulty of revisiting his worst memories, his family’s response to his story, and his new role as an activist.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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1:03.4	Brandon J. Wolf is the author of A Place for Us, a Memoir. Brandon is a nationally recognized
1:08.6	gun safety, an LGBTQ civil rights advocate and dynamic public speaker.
1:13.7	He currently serves as the Press Secretary for Equality, Florida, the state's LGBT
1:18.2	Civil Rights Organization.
1:20.6	On June 12th, life change for Brandon.
1:23.1	He crouched in a bathroom while a gunman opened fire at Orlando's Pulse nightclub,
1:27.9	killing his best friends, Drew, and Juan, and 47 others.
1:31.9	Rather than be swallowed by the anger and fear of tragedy, Brandon set out to honor the
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