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When Ventura reported Tuesday’s incident he learned the situation could have been much worse. So we’re encouraging people if they feel like they’re bullied, picked upon or harassed, to work with us or call the local police,” Fearing said. “What I’m hearing from folks is a fear about physical safety. Now, they are afraid those advancements will be rolled back. Man charged with allegedly burning Pride flag in New York gay bar twice. He said in recent years, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities have seen the lifting of many barriers that prevented them from living open and honest lives. (KELO) A rural South Dakota man burned an LGBTQ flag while spouting obscenities about gay people on Facebook Live. A homophobe who wanted to ‘punish’ gays has been jailed for 16 years for burning a LGBT pride flag a tougher sentence than for rape. Members especially leaned on each other for support Wednesday, a day after surprising election results, according to Scott Fearing, executive director of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley. LGBTQ Pride flag burning not a hate crime in SD. The flag burning happened at a time when many are wondering what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for the LGBT community. I thought I lived in a very accepting area of Rochester and I just couldn’t believe that this happened in the downtown region,” Ventura said. The attorney for an Omaha man accused of stealing a lesbian couple’s gay pride flag, setting it on fire and waving it in front of their house said Wednesday that the act was a drunken prank, not. Ventura, who lives at the house with a roommate, called the incident a “targeted hate crime.” “There were heated temperaments due to the election happening so I did make the tie later on that possibly the election was the reason,” said Ventura. LGBTQ activists and organizations contacted by the Blade said they were unfamiliar with the variation of the rainbow flag with the word love that was the subject of the poster burning incident.
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He said it’s clear someone was making a statement. on Election Day, when Greg Ventura returned home from dinner. The burned rainbow flag was found just after 5:00 p.m. A Central Washington University student has been arrested after being accused of stealing and burning the school’s LGBTQ+ Pride flag and posting it online, according to officials. Police are investigating the burning of a gay pride flag, after a resident in the North Winton Village area discovered its charred remains on his front porch.