Tag: vandals

"It didn't stop us for a single second," says store manager Uli Lenart. Vandals targeted at landmark LGBT bookstore in the U.K., smashing the shop’s windows early Sunday morning. Gay’s The Word has been a London mainstay for nearly 40 years and the staff say the incident hasn’t deterred them. “We see it for what it was,” manager Uli Lenart told The Bookseller. “We immediately boarded it up and then got a new window put in. It didn’t stop us ...

One Virginia man found a nasty trick when he returned to his car on Halloween night. The man returned to his car after 10 pm on Halloween night in Highland Park within Richmond, Virginia and found it spray-painted with the words “GAY MOVE DIE.” Finding the spray-painted car scared the man so much that he then had an asthma attack and was taken to the hospital. “ has to drive this car to work in the morning,” added Virginia Pride president James...

“We have never experienced this kind of homophobic vandalism on our billboards before," said a spokesman for Squirt. Vandals in Washington, D.C. defaced an ad for a gay hookup site by drawing rifle scopes on the foreheads of a gay couple pictured on it. A poster for Squirt located inside the Shaw-Howard University Metro station was vandalized on September 21. In addition to the bullseyes, the word “gay” was written on one of the men’s arms, with “fag” scrawled on the...

Vandals in Los Angeles have defaced the LA LGBT Centre with a series of homophobic slurs. Workers arrived at the centre on Friday to find slurs including “f*ck trannies”, “f*ck all y’all” and “f*g” across the side of the facility which is located in Hollywood. “It happened sometime between 9 and 10 pm last night,” Director of Facilities at the Centre, Jackie DeFede, told Vanguard Now. “We had a security officer on duty, but he was patrolling other areas of the building....