Effrain Colon Ortiz

Jonathan worked for Telemundo when we met. He was the one that gives the instructions where exits are. How to explain, "Listen, when I give this sign, that means you guys applaud. When I go like this it's silence. When the kids come try to animate the kids so they wouldn't get nervous." He would give all those instructions. The show we saw was like the The Voice but it was kids and it was Latin. During the show we went to, he saw this guy but we thought that he was straight because he was with a girl. Jonathan says something about him. We thought that he didn’t hear us but he did. Then the guy came up to him. He says, "Oh, you too, I like you too." Jonathan just turned red so bad that he just had to sit down and we started fanning him. They stopped the recording because they thought that he was ill, but he wasn't. It was just, so then the guy was laughing, the girl was laughing hysterically. We were laughing because we know what was happening but the people, the cast, the producers and everything didn’t. They thought that he just got ill. * The last time he saw him was outside the bar that night. He came early, he hugged and kissed me. He said, I'm very happy as I met someone he's somebody. He went inside and that was it. When his name came up (on the TV), Junior called his mother. He said that he told his mother that the last thing that they talked about. That he was happy. ******** Effrain Colon Ortiz. This interview was conducted via Samuel Maldano in English, Effrain’s partner as he was also there during the Telemundo taping and the night of the shooting at Pulse. Instructions/Permissions *Interviews are edited and condensed *Portrait by Daymon Gardner for Dear World