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Remembering Orlando Victim 'Top Hat Eddie'

Facebook via REUTERS
Facebook via REUTERS

Eddie Sotomayor was 34 when he died at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday. Travel company owner Al Ferguson remembers his employee as a trailblazer in the gay travel industry, organizing the first gay cruise to Cuba this year.

Sotomayor became known in LGBT circles nationally as #tophateddie because he always wore a top hat at travel company events.

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Al Ferguson, owner of Legendary Journeys.

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