The woman arrted for allegedly settg fire to a gay pri flag outsi a Manhattan rtrant, an cint ught on mera, was found mentally unf for trial.
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- GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
- WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY SET FIRE TO GAY PRI FLAG OUTSI NYC RTRANT FOUND MENTALLY UNF FOR TRIAL
- MAN FACG HATE CRIME CHARG FOR ALLEGEDLY BURNG GAY PRI FLAG
GAY PRI FLAG ATTACKS MOUNT AMID ONLE CHALLENG BY EXTREMIST GROUPS
The Iowa man was found guilty of mtg a hate crime agast the Iowa gay muny. * burning lgbt flag *
”June is Pri Month, dited to regnizg the acplishments of and historil discrimatn faced by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr also said: “We are really ncerned. Police Nebraska are vtigatg the burng of a gay Pri flag as a hate crime the latt of a rash of recent attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny believed to be driven part by onle the past week alone, Pri flags have been stolen, slashed or burned at least five stat, cludg California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. That’s on top of siar cints California and New York May, cludg a man that feted on a pri flag thefts and vandalism e as onle extremists have been spreadg a new hashtag recent weeks that enurag followers to damage, stroy or steal Pri flags wherever they see them, said Sarah Moore, an anti-LGBTQ+ extremism analyst for the Anti-Defamatn League and the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.
WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY SET FIRE TO GAY PRI FLAG OUTSI NYC RTRANT FOUND MENTALLY UNF FOR TRIAL
“They are advotg for a stroy-the-Pri-flag challenge, or they ll them pture-the-flag challeng, where they advote for their followers to go out really creative ways and pture and face or set fire to Pri flags om private rinc and bs across the untry, ” she 's a crime to be gay: A visual gui to where LGBTQ rights are reprsed'Extreme' and 'hateful' bills: Bin mov to protect LGBTQ Amerins amid onslght of attacksRecent cintsIn Omaha on June 2, a masked man set fire to a Pri flag beg displayed outsi a home what’s beg vtigated as a hate crime, said the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office sheriff’s office said that home surveillance vio shows that the man appears to e accelerant before igng the flag and fleeg.
“In many s they are rultg vlence agast LGBTQ+ people, forcg fai to uproot their liv and flee their hom search of safer stat, and triggerg a tidal wave of creased homophobia and transphobia that puts the safety of each and every one of at risk.
”Print Joe Bin on Thursday blamed “extreme officials” phg “hateful bills” for the onslght of attacks agast the LGBTQ muny and pledged that gay Amerins would always have the support of his admistratn.
MAN FACG HATE CRIME CHARG FOR ALLEGEDLY BURNG GAY PRI FLAG
“If I buy a gay pri flag and burn as a prott, whout endangerg other people or property, there is no crime, and so my hateful motive is irrelevant, ” he said. “If you burn someone else’s Pri flag wh the tent of trashg gays bee of their stat, might be a hate crime, ” Nborne said. It's a blsg om the Lord, " he said, explag that he did bee he "opposed homosexualy".
The terview was entered to the trial as evince agast pastor Eileen Gebbie, who intifi as gay woman, says she agre that Martez' actns were motivated by hatred. LGBTQ youth many stat have a faced a sweep of bills targetg classroom discsn of LGBTQ March 2022, Florida passed a so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law, rtrictg discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty elementary schools. Although they’re jt piec of fabric, the flags are powerful symbols and remrs to queer people that they are enterg affirmg Pri flag was created the late 1970s when Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to hold public office San Francis, asked iend Gilbert Baker to create a symbol for the queer muny.
"A homophobe who wanted to 'punish' gays has been jailed for 16 years for burng a LGBT pri flag — a tougher sentence than for rape. Adolfo Martez, 30, stole the flag om Uned Church of Christ Am, Iowa, bee he hated gay people before burng outsi Dangero Curv lap dancg club... Martez admted to his crim an terview wh KCCI, sayg he was motivated by an antipathy towards homosexualy and that he had "burned down their pri, pla and simple.