When Se7enbites owner Trina Gregory saw the negative reaction following the removal of the rainbow crosswalk outside Orlando’s Pulse nightclub , she felt a desire to respond differently.

“I feel like we’re all in this place of trying to heal and have been, for so long,” Gregory told the Orlando Sentinel.

“I see so much hate, and these protests, and the rhetoric of fighting back, but there’s another way to fight back: with kindness and love and creating community and that is where this event comes from.”

Letters: Readers react to rainbow crosswalk removal

On Sept. 15, Gregory will welcome the community to celebrate as artists paint 49 parking spots in the Se7enbites lot to honor the lives lost in the Pulse nightclub shooting of June 12, 2016, at the time the deadliest mass shooting in

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