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Community unites after an LGBTQ+ senior housing project in Boston was defaced
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The road to building The Pryde, a Boston housing development aimed at LGBTQ+ seniors, has been surprisingly smooth. That's what made last weekend's homophobic vandalism all the more shocking.
"It was more horrible than I ever imagined it could be because every single one of our banners and signs that we had put up for the groundbreaking had some sort of of graffiti and hateful language and threats painted on it," Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc, one of the groups behind the project, told NPR.
Among the slurs and death threats covering the perimeter of the construction site, which takes up nearly an entire city block of the Hyde Park neighborhood, were messages saying, "We will burn this," "die slow," and "die by fire."
The road to building The Pryde, a Boston housing development aimed at LGBTQ+ seniors, has been surprisingly smooth. That's what made last weekend's homophobic vandalism all the more shocking.
"It was more horrible than I ever imagined it could be because every single one of our banners and signs that we had put up for the groundbreaking had some sort of of graffiti and hateful language and threats painted on it," Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc, one of the groups behind the project, told NPR.
Among the slurs and death threats covering the perimeter of the construction site, which takes up nearly an entire city block of the Hyde Park neighborhood, were messages saying, "We will burn this," "die slow," and "die by fire."
Community unites after an LGBTQ+ senior housing project in Boston was defaced
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..."This was just heartbreaking for the community and for all of us who love this building and love this project," Van Ness said, explaining that the graffiti was spray painted either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
But just hours later, that heartbreak turned into "a phenomenal experience she said."...
..."This was just heartbreaking for the community and for all of us who love this building and love this project," Van Ness said, explaining that the graffiti was spray painted either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
But just hours later, that heartbreak turned into "a phenomenal experience she said."...
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