A Pride flag was taken down and burned outside of a City Hall building in Tempe, Arizona. City officials confirmed that the act of vandalism is under investigation by police.
A Pride flag was taken down and burned outside of a City Hall building in Tempe, Arizona, officials said Tuesday.
An LGBTQ Pride flag was raised outside the City Hall building in Tempe, Ariz., to celebrate Pride Month.The flag-burning comes months after a bomb threat was made to an LGBTQ-owned coffee shop in Tempe, a city of 186,000 people that's about 10 miles east of Phoenix. The shop's co-owner, Gabe Hagen, said that no bomb was found, but that detectives had told him far-right extremists were in the area that day,“That was an unfortunate instance of hate,” Hagen said, regarding the bomb threat. “It’s just misguided, unfortunately, and that’s disappointing to see.”
The threats and acts of violence toward the queer community in Tempe come amid a surge in similar anti-LGBTQ demonstrations across the country.
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