WASHINGTON — It’s been more than a month since dozens of people were killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, and a local chain of hair salons is raising money to help victims and their families.
All proceeds from Sunday’s eight-hour “Salon-a-Thon” will benefit Equality Florida’s Pulse Victims Fund of Orlando.
“We realized that as a company, one of our roles was to play an accepting space for the LGBT community,” said David von Storch, who is the president and founder of Urban Adventures, the company that owns Bang Salons.
“Bang Salon team came back and said they wanted to move their annual cut-a-thon, which normally happens in the end of September, forward to July,” Von Storch said.
Von Storch said Bang usually has a yearly fundraiser at one of their salons to benefit cancer research.
This year, all four Bang salons are participating in the fundraiser.
“It was really nice to see how they stepped up and volunteered their time, and their services and their efforts today to make a difference,” Von Storch said.
He said several bad things have happened since the Pulse shooting.
He said the Salon-a-Thon “reminds us that it did happen and that the need is there and will be there particularly for those who have survived and have medical bills and have expenses that will go on well into the future.”
