Post by Logan on Jun 22, 2016 23:23:47 GMT -6
Twenty-year-old Scout Register got a call from his sister Saturday night while he was at a friend's house. She had just seen mean in two white trucks come by and steal his gay-pride flag — again.
This was the second time it happened in a week, and so Register, upset, asked his sister to come pick him up. Register had stuck the rainbow flag in his family's front lawn in Tomball following the deadly attack at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando on June 12, which left 49 innocent people dead and another 53 wounded. This, he said, was just flat-out disrespectful to the victims and their families.
But before his sister even left the house, she saw the vandals come back. They brought the flag back too: It was cut up and on fire — with a swastika spray-painted on it in black.
“I was horrified — for quite a different number of reasons,” said Register, who is gay. “This was not just an attack on my flag and my property. It was an attack on the victims who have already gone through such an awful experience, and on the entire LGBT community.”
Read more: www.houstonpress.com/news/vandals-destroy-gay-mans-pride-flag-in-tomball-8502716
