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Tue Jul 12, 2022, 02:54 PM Jul 2022

LGBTQ senior housing vandalized with hateful messages: "The fa***ts will die by fire" [View all]



Residents of the Hyde Park neighborhood in Boston Sunday woke to a hateful display of vandalism spray painted across a new LGBTQ senior housing complex in the area.

“The fa***ts will die by fire,” “We will burn this,” and “Die slow” were among the messages.

Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., said she started getting emails about the vandalism from neighbors out walking their dogs early Sunday morning.

“We were heartbroken to wake up this morning to the terrible news that The Pryde was vandalized overnight with hate speech and threats spray-painted on virtually every sign,” LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. said in a statement.

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