Pulse, 10 Years later: How One Life Became a Movement for LGBTQ Youth

Phoenix Generation Rising Together · Jul 6, 2026 · 25m

In this episode of the Phoenix Generation podcast, Dr. Lua Hancock sits down with Sara Grossman, founder of The Dru Project. Dru was one of the 49 people killed at Pulse on June 12, 2016. He was also the friend who started his high school's first Gay-Straight Alliance in 2002, the one who pulled everyone together, the one whose hugs you could "taste." Out of unimaginable grief, his friends turned his name into a movement: a nonprofit that has given more than $300,000 in scholarships to LGBTQ+ youth and published a GSA guide now downloaded in 15 countries and 47 states. Now, after a decade…