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'Hamilton' Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks About Love, Orlando Shooting on Tonys Speech

Lin-Manuel Miranda Dedicates Tonys Speech to Victims of Orlando Shooting

Feeling overwhelmed by the tragic events of the weekend, "Hamilton" star Lin-Manuel Miranda took pen to paper and prepared a sonnet for the 50 lives that were lost from the tragic Orlando shooting.

According to The New York Times, "Hamilton" is an improbable hip-hop musical about the first treasury secretary of America. It was a smash hit right off the bat, selling out tickets and captivating audiences with its largely non-white cast exploring the revolutionary origins of the US.

In his first visit to the stage to accept the Tony for his groundbreaking musical, the star and creator of "Hamilton" wrote a poem inspired by his wife and dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting at Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida, which took place in the early hours of June 12, about 18 hours before the Tony Awards started.

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In accepting the Tony for Best Original Score, Miranda told the crowd, "I'm not freestyling, I'm too old. I wrote you a sonnet instead."

Part of his sonnet read, "When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day.
This show is proof that history remembers."

He also emphasized, "Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside."

Interestingly, while dozens of celebrities like Miranda expressed horror and heartbreak over the senseless attack against the LGBTQ community during Pride Month, there are also others who applauded the attack, some of which are Christians, and others, Muslims, who took their cheer to Twitter.

Many are mourning with the LGBTQ community as these people are still part of the conersation. Achieving marriage equality does not mean that oppression against the community has been dissolved.

The act of terrorism against the LGBTQ community, despite the cheer of some Christians, was condemned by the Pope. The Holy See Press Office said in a statement, "The terrible massacre that has taken place in Orlando, with its dreadfully high number of innocent victims, has caused in Pope Francis, and in all of us, the deepest feelings of horror and condemnation, of pain and turmoil before this new manifestation of homicidal folly and senseless hatred."

The statement went on to read that such absurd violece upsets the desire for peace, not only for the American people, but of humanity as a whole.

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