By Eric Ethington (Salt Lake City, Utah) DEC 30 | The Queens College Gay Straight Alliance in Flushing, New York, was vandalized this month with hate messages and gay slurs. So far both campus police and city police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
The slurs — fag, dike, dyke and tranny — were written, painted, and hole-punched into different works of art the club had completed. Club president Deborah Lolai has said she was devastated that someone could have done this.
Via the Queens Courier:
Behind one of the larger paintings, the word “dyke” was fashioned with the club’s purple duct tape (pictured). Under another painting, the word “dike” was punched in with a pin, one hole at a time.
Lolai speculated that the people who did this took their time to write the slurs in several media. The different spellings of the word “dyke” suggest that there were multiple individuals involved, Lolai said.
“The way whoever did this . . . makes it a lot more terrifying,” said Lolai. “Thinking about someone sitting there and poking the wall is really creepy and really scary.
Queens College President James L. Muyskens said that the college does not tolerate homophobia or any kind of harassment.
“I assure you that anyone found to have committed such acts on our campus will be held accountable,” he said.
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I'm not amazed by the extent of ignorance and destruction by graffiti 'artists'. They totally have NO concern with the damage they are causing, and do so only to further their own perverse ends, whatever they may be. You only have to see the damage done in our National Parks, Historic Parks, and other treasures to know that nothing and nowhere is sacred or important to them.
I know this is seen as an attack on LGBT people, but that is only the current target. The overall concept of marking territory with graffiti goes much further than this one act. We need to have much more appropriate punishments, but further than that, we need to regain a sense of community and respect. We need to do that soon.
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