anti-gay vandalism

Body shop restores bullied gay student’s vandalized car for free

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
August 23rd, 2012

ROANOKE, Va. — A local body shop has come to the rescue of an openly gay college student who has had a tough time this year as vandals have defaced his car four times.

Radford University student Jordan Addison told WDBJ-TV that between March and May of this year his car was vandalized four times — once at his home and three times on-campus.

Gay athletic director at prep school targeted in hate crimes

Nick Wilson - SanLuisObispo.com
August 17th, 2012

PISMO BEACH, Calif. -- The gay athletic director of Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School was targeted with two vandalism incidents that police in two local cities investigated as hate crimes.

On the morning of April 26, Mission Prep athletic director Bailey Brown went outside her home in Pismo Beach to discover her car spray-painted, her tires slashed and the vehicle’s body scratched throughout, according to Pismo Beach Police Department Lt. Steve Weir.

VIDEO: Mississippi gay couple fear for safety after homophobic vandalism on their home

HuffPost Gay Voices Staff
July 19th, 2012

A Mississippi-based gay couple say they fear for their safety after being targeted on several instances by homophobic vandals.

As local ABC affiliate WTOK is reporting, Dustin Tasso and Matt James say they have been harassed in their home simply for being gay.

5 arrested in Texas anti-gay vandalism, may face hate crime charges

SDGLN Staff
June 20th, 2012

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Police in Arlington, Texas, have arrested five suspects in a crime spree that included anti-gay vandalism at a lesbian couple's home.

Police are recommending that the District Attorney prosecute the five suspects under the state's hate crimes law based on sexual orientation.

VIDEO: Anti-gay slurs spray-painted on Ohio couple’s home

Denise Yost and Tom Brockman – NBC4i.com
November 10th, 2011

GROVE CITY, Ohio -- A Grove City couple says they were the target of a hate crime overnight after a homophobic slur was spray-painted on their home.

David Robins and his partner, Michael, have lived at their home on Castleton Street in Grove City for nine years.

Wednesday morning, Robins said, they awoke to find someone had spray-painted homophobic slurs on their garage door, home and fence.