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• SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• VILE HOMOPHOBIC GRAFFI DISVERED ON MURALS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE
• MANCHTER GAY VILLAGE MURALS FACED WH HOMOPHOBIC GRAFFI
• LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED
• ARRT MA AFTER VIO SURFAC OF SOUTH FLORIDA PRI MURAL BEG VANDALIZED BY FOX 13 NEWS STAFF PUBLISHED JUNE 17, 2021 UPDATED JUNE 18, 2021 FLORIDA FOX 13 NEWS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE DELRAY BEACH, FLA. - AN ARRT HAS BEEN MA THE VANDALIZATN OF A SOUTH FLORIDA CY'S RABOW-LORED PRI CROSSWALK.  THE CY OF DELRAY BEACH HELD A RIBBON-CUTTG CEREMONY FOR THE TERSECTN THE SATURDAY, JUNE 12. BY MONDAY, VANDALS HAD HAD ALREADY FACED THE TERSECTN WH SKID MARKS. A WNS PTURED VIO OF THE VANDALS APPEARG TO TENTNALLY LEAVE 15 FEET OF SKID MARKS ACROSS THE STREETSPE PATG, WHICH VERS THE TERSECTN OF NE 1ST STREET AND NE 2ND AVENUE. ACRDG TO POLICE DOCUMENTS, THE VIO SHOWS A WHE CHEVY TCK STOPPED AT THE TERSECTN, AND THEN "TENTNALLY ACCELERATED THE VEHICLE AN UNREASONABLE UNSAFE MANNER A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, MONLY REFERRED TO AS A 'BURN OUT.'" THE TCK'S TIR THEN SKID AS THE VEHICLE CROSSED THE ONG LANE, WHERE ANOTHER VEHICLE WAS APPROACHG, THE DOCUMENT SAYS. "THE CHEVY TCK NTU TO RECKLSLY SKID SIWAYS, ALMOST HTG THE NW CURB TO THE SIWALK ONT OF THE HYATT HOTEL. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS TERSECTN IS VERY PESTRIAN-IENDLY, AND THE HYATT HOTEL HAS AN OPEN LOUNGE STG AREA ON THAT SIWALK RNER, WHICH THE TCK WOULD HAVE LLID TO IF WOULD HAVE H THE CURB," THE DOCUMENT SAYS. "THE VIO SHOWS THAT THE DRIVER WILLFULLY DROVE THE VEHICLE WH DISREGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF ANY OTHER PERSONS OR PROPERTY." RELATED: TRANSGENR ATHLET FIGHT FLORIDA’S NEW BAN POLICE WERE ABLE TO CLEARLY SEE THE TCK'S LICENSE PLATE AND INTIFIED THE OWNER AS 30-YEAR-OLD JOHN EDWARD JERICH, OF LAKE WORTH. AFTER INTIFYG JERICH, POLICE SAY ANOTHER WNS ME FORWARD. THE MAN SAID HE ATTEND A "PRINT TMP BIRTHDAY RALLY," WHICH CLUD A DRIVG ROUTE THROUGH THE CY, ON THE DAY OF THE ALLEGED VANDALISM. THE WNS SAID HE WAS A VEHICLE THAT WAS DRIVG TWO VEHICL ONT OF THE CHEVY. (COURTY WPTV) THE WNS TOLD POLICE HE HEARD A MAN YELL SOMETHG TO THE EFFECT OF, "ADAM, TEAR UP THAT GAY TERSECTN," ACRDG TO POLICE DOCUMENTS. THE WNS SAID HE TURNED AROUND AND SAW THE DRIVER OF THE CHEVY AND SCRIBED HIM AS A WHE MALE HIS EARLY 20S, WH BLON, SHOULR-LENGTH, CURLY HAIR. HE SCRIBED THE VEHICLE TO HAVE A BLUE "TMP" FLAG THAT WAS LEANG OFF THE TAILGATE. THE WNS LATER INTIFIED JERICH A PHOTO LP. THE WNS SAID THE VANDALISM AFFECTED HIM AND FELT HE HAD TO E FORWARD, NOT ONLY AS A MUNY MEMBER BUT AS A GAY MAN, THE POLICE DOCUMENTS STATE. THE VENDOR WHO PATED THE STREETSPE, WHICH ST $16,720, TRIED TO CLEAN THE TIRE MARKS OM THE STREET BUT THE DAMAGE WAS TOO EXTENSIVE. ALEXANR JERICH (PHOTO: PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE) "IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SCE THE ACT OF VANDALISM, AN OUTCRY OM THE DELRAY BEACH MUNY HAS OCCURRED TO SHOW SUPPORT AGAST THE CRIME AND TO RALLY WH THE LGBTQ MUNY, THROUGH THE LLS TO THE DBPD AND POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS MEDIA," THE POLICE DOCUMENTS NOTE. ALEXANR MICHAEL JERICH, 19, FAC CHARG OF CRIMAL MISCHIEF ($1,000 OR MORE), RECKLS DRIVG WH PROPERTY DAMAGE, AND EVINCE OF PREJUDICE, WHICH ELEVAT THE CRIME TO A FELONY. DAILY NEWSLETTER

SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED

Controversial Pri mural featurg a 'creepy' teddy bear gay bondage patg is vandalised and stroyed overnight: 'Leave the kids alone'LGBTQ+ bondage mural Sydney stroyed overnightIt featured a teddy bear wearg a bondage outf Published: 21:31 BST, 22 Febary 2023 | Updated: 00:25 BST, 23 Febary 2023. The ntroversial patg on Wynyard Street Sydney's CBD showed a hairy, overweight man wearg a leather bondage strap across his cht wh a teddy bear head as he recled on a sofa wh a beer n and a gay pri was signed to promote lol shops durg the WorldPri ftival but sparked outrage and mands for the 'creepy and sexualised' image to be removed om the view of mural was placed close to one of the cy's bit tra and b statns, also lled Wynyard.

'The gay muny worked hard for years to distance themselv om this sort of reprentatn. A Pri mural recently pated by a gay-straight alliance wt of Edmonton was vandalized wh days, Mounti say.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

The artwork – which featur rabow lours and the msage "Be ee to be you" – was pated by the Parkland Gay-Straight-Alliance on June 26 durg the first-ever Pri event supported by the town. There’s a lot of time and money put to the effort to make this nice, to support our Gay muny and then they jt pletely faced , ” said Mary Jo Whehurst, general manager of the Merriweather rort.

Two popular LGBTQ+ murals Manchter’s gay village were faced wh homophobic graffi on Saturday eveng (26 June). “Absolutely disgtg to hear that someone has vandalised our Gay Village wh homophobic language, which is specifilly targetg our LGBTQ+ muny, ” he said. Absolutely disgted to hear that someone has vandalised our Gay Village wh homophobic language, which is specifilly targetg our LGBTQ+ muny.

At-Behan also praised the muny’s ra and reliance sce the homophobic graffi was disvered. A giant mural of England's first openly gay footballer has been unveiled on the si of a Fashanu remas the only male profsnal player to nfirm he was homosexual - amid fears he would be "outed" by a natnal newspaper 1990 - and was ducted to the footballg Hall of Fame spe now beg seen as an spiratn the fight agast homophobia and discrimatn sport, the proud Canary took his own life 1998 - wrg his suici note that beg gay and a personaly was "so hard" former Norwich Cy striker, who beme the UK's first black £1m player when he was sold to Nottgham Fort, ntu to be seen as a legend at the Norfolk Champnship "wonr strike" agast Liverpool at Carrow Road 1980 went on to w Match of the Day's goal of the season now his face has taken pri of place on the si of a Canari supporters pub.

VILE HOMOPHOBIC GRAFFI DISVERED ON MURALS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

A mural of former Norwich Cy player Jt Fashanu, England's first openly gay footballer, has appeared on the Fat Cat and Canary. Great player, sred an amazg goal, the first £1m black player, me out as gay, " he said.

There was a lot of homophobia the prs and media and he was hound for the fact that he me out as beg gay. Two murals Manchter’s gay village were faced wh homophobic graffi. Vile homophobic graffi has been disvered on two murals Manchter’s gay village durg Pri month.

A mural of gay World War II breaker Alan Turg and Manchter drag queen Foo Foo Lammar was targeted, as well as one of Drag Race UK star Diva Campo, both of which were loted close to Manchter’s inic Canal Street the gay village. Cy centre uncillor Jon-Connor Lyons, who reprents Manchter’s Picdilly Ward, sisted that he would report the graffi on the gay village murals to the police. He wrote on Twter: “Absolutely disgted to hear that someone has vandalised our gay village wh homophobic language, which is specifilly targetg our LGBT+ muny.

MANCHTER GAY VILLAGE MURALS FACED WH HOMOPHOBIC GRAFFI

Image source, Habiloid/Geograph/Nomad ClanImage ptn, Greater Manchter Police said no arrts had been ma nnectn wh the graffiThe facement of two murals of LGBT personali Manchter's Gay Village wh homophobic graffi is "disappotg", a drag queen picted one of the works has artworks on Richmond Street, which feature putg pneer Alan Turg, Drag Race UK star Diva De Campo and others, were attacked on number 666 and a misspelt expletive were spray pated on to the showed the LGBT movement Pri was "need more than ever", De Campo works - an dividual portra of De Campo and a large work featurg Turg, wrer Quent Crisp and polil activist Emmele Pankhurst on the si of The Molly Hoe pub - were dbed wh the same words.

"Followg the repairs to The Molly Hoe mural, Mr At-Behan tweeted that the patg of De Campo would also be "rtored to s former glory tomorrow" drag queen said the graffi and the recent spate of homophobic and transphobic attacks Liverpool highlighted the ntug importance of Pri.

LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED

The mural, which evok classic cholo culture but featur a gay male uple, a lbian uple, a trans man, and the words "Por Vida" ("for life"), is loted on 24th Street the Missn District, an area recently signated the Calle 24 Lato Cultural District.

The mural was found vered wh spray pat Tuday morng, wh vandals crossg out the gay and lbian upl' fac and the text wh blue and red pat. "In that same statement, Galeria la Raza executive director Ani Rivera amed the vandalism and social media harassment as "remrs that homophobia is alive and well our muni; however, we will not let thrive.

ARRT MA AFTER VIO SURFAC OF SOUTH FLORIDA PRI MURAL BEG VANDALIZED BY FOX 13 NEWS STAFF PUBLISHED JUNE 17, 2021 UPDATED JUNE 18, 2021 FLORIDA FOX 13 NEWS SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE DELRAY BEACH, FLA. - AN ARRT HAS BEEN MA THE VANDALIZATN OF A SOUTH FLORIDA CY'S RABOW-LORED PRI CROSSWALK.  THE CY OF DELRAY BEACH HELD A RIBBON-CUTTG CEREMONY FOR THE TERSECTN THE SATURDAY, JUNE 12. BY MONDAY, VANDALS HAD HAD ALREADY FACED THE TERSECTN WH SKID MARKS. A WNS PTURED VIO OF THE VANDALS APPEARG TO TENTNALLY LEAVE 15 FEET OF SKID MARKS ACROSS THE STREETSPE PATG, WHICH VERS THE TERSECTN OF NE 1ST STREET AND NE 2ND AVENUE. ACRDG TO POLICE DOCUMENTS, THE VIO SHOWS A WHE CHEVY TCK STOPPED AT THE TERSECTN, AND THEN "TENTNALLY ACCELERATED THE VEHICLE AN UNREASONABLE UNSAFE MANNER A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, MONLY REFERRED TO AS A 'BURN OUT.'" THE TCK'S TIR THEN SKID AS THE VEHICLE CROSSED THE ONG LANE, WHERE ANOTHER VEHICLE WAS APPROACHG, THE DOCUMENT SAYS. "THE CHEVY TCK NTU TO RECKLSLY SKID SIWAYS, ALMOST HTG THE NW CURB TO THE SIWALK ONT OF THE HYATT HOTEL. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS TERSECTN IS VERY PESTRIAN-IENDLY, AND THE HYATT HOTEL HAS AN OPEN LOUNGE STG AREA ON THAT SIWALK RNER, WHICH THE TCK WOULD HAVE LLID TO IF WOULD HAVE H THE CURB," THE DOCUMENT SAYS. "THE VIO SHOWS THAT THE DRIVER WILLFULLY DROVE THE VEHICLE WH DISREGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF ANY OTHER PERSONS OR PROPERTY." RELATED: TRANSGENR ATHLET FIGHT FLORIDA’S NEW BAN POLICE WERE ABLE TO CLEARLY SEE THE TCK'S LICENSE PLATE AND INTIFIED THE OWNER AS 30-YEAR-OLD JOHN EDWARD JERICH, OF LAKE WORTH. AFTER INTIFYG JERICH, POLICE SAY ANOTHER WNS ME FORWARD. THE MAN SAID HE ATTEND A "PRINT TMP BIRTHDAY RALLY," WHICH CLUD A DRIVG ROUTE THROUGH THE CY, ON THE DAY OF THE ALLEGED VANDALISM. THE WNS SAID HE WAS A VEHICLE THAT WAS DRIVG TWO VEHICL ONT OF THE CHEVY. (COURTY WPTV) THE WNS TOLD POLICE HE HEARD A MAN YELL SOMETHG TO THE EFFECT OF, "ADAM, TEAR UP THAT GAY TERSECTN," ACRDG TO POLICE DOCUMENTS. THE WNS SAID HE TURNED AROUND AND SAW THE DRIVER OF THE CHEVY AND SCRIBED HIM AS A WHE MALE HIS EARLY 20S, WH BLON, SHOULR-LENGTH, CURLY HAIR. HE SCRIBED THE VEHICLE TO HAVE A BLUE "TMP" FLAG THAT WAS LEANG OFF THE TAILGATE. THE WNS LATER INTIFIED JERICH A PHOTO LP. THE WNS SAID THE VANDALISM AFFECTED HIM AND FELT HE HAD TO E FORWARD, NOT ONLY AS A MUNY MEMBER BUT AS A GAY MAN, THE POLICE DOCUMENTS STATE. THE VENDOR WHO PATED THE STREETSPE, WHICH ST $16,720, TRIED TO CLEAN THE TIRE MARKS OM THE STREET BUT THE DAMAGE WAS TOO EXTENSIVE. ALEXANR JERICH (PHOTO: PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE) "IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SCE THE ACT OF VANDALISM, AN OUTCRY OM THE DELRAY BEACH MUNY HAS OCCURRED TO SHOW SUPPORT AGAST THE CRIME AND TO RALLY WH THE LGBTQ MUNY, THROUGH THE LLS TO THE DBPD AND POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS MEDIA," THE POLICE DOCUMENTS NOTE. ALEXANR MICHAEL JERICH, 19, FAC CHARG OF CRIMAL MISCHIEF ($1,000 OR MORE), RECKLS DRIVG WH PROPERTY DAMAGE, AND EVINCE OF PREJUDICE, WHICH ELEVAT THE CRIME TO A FELONY. DAILY NEWSLETTER

"I know there is gay Latos but to have gay cholos is unheard of, " wrote one Instagram menter. "I say this wh no tent of 'homophobia' or 'cyber attackg' as you stated on your webse.

"It's hard to be gay and lbian and still be this Chino culture, " says Pl.

" Judgg by the heated discsn onle among those upset by the mural's existence, Rivera says Por Vida seems to have stck a nerve for people who fe cholo culture as "hard" and "macho" -- and never "gay. " While stg outsi the gallery as the mural was first beg stalled, Rivera says she wnsed a variety of reactns, but most of the negative ments were directed at the gay uple picted.