Lesbian Couple Treated to Noose, ‘KILL THE GAY’ Graffiti This Halloweekend

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Nov 1, 2011 in Oh Hell No! | 14 comments

Aimee Whitchurch and Christel Conklin have become something of civil rights heroes in their town Parker, Colorado. The lesbian couple has found themselves the victims of a terrifying hate crime this past Halloween weekend, after someone graffitied “KILL THE GAY” on their garage door, and left a noose in front of their home.

Straight up, I write gay news for a living and I’m still surprised by this story. A noose? Seriously?

“You don’t know who is targeting you,” Whitchurch says. “At first I thought it was kids until the noose.”

The couple has been together for four years and they’re not going to leave their home because of hate.

The H.O.A. tried to paint over the hate message but the couple says how the haphazard way they tried to paint the garage door is another example of the harassment they have to live through.

Aimee and Christel put up signs on the garage door that read “We will not submit to hate” and “Don’t cover it, solve it.”

The couple says despite what they are going through, they aren’t leaving.

“We’re the white Rosa Parks,” Conklin says. “We’re not getting off the bus.”

The noose and graffiti are hardly the only disturbing parts of this story. The couple’s neighborhood homeowner’s association begrudgingly half-assed the hell out of the clean-up job – barely covering the graffiti and leaving paint all over the couple’s driveway, making their resentment to having the lesbian couple on the block known.

Gays lit on fire, nooses, and threats to “beat the gay out” of a lesbian – extreme violence against LGBT Americans seems to be on the rise in a major way.

Anti-gay Republican presidential campaigns? Christian bigotry? Reality television? What is causing this wave of violence against gays?

(via KWGN)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1314018928 Lori Rocco

Sickening!!!!!
http://twitter.com/kpringologist Kindra Pring

We’re winning. They start by ignoring us. Then when they can’t ignore us, they’ll try to scare everyone into hating us. Then why people see through that, they’ll try sanctioning laws against us. They’ve gone through all those steps, and the final step before the world realizes who the true evil is, is violence. This new wave is their fear – they see that people are finally realizing that all the scare-tactics from the anti-gay crowd is false, they see that gay people aren’t going to be scared out of fighting for our rights, so they’re falling on the last result of trying to beat us into submission.

It’s always darkest before the dawn, so to speak.

meh2

do you mind if i quote you from now on? (:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Luinne-DLlard/100001583873176 Luinne D’Llard

The dark is the best time for vengeful fuckers like me. 83

http://www.facebook.com/jebbeansrgood Ashley Daniels Rothschild

I think it’s the same reason we’re seeing a lot more press about gays in general; we’re getting to a point where it’s SOOOOO CLOSE to majority acceptance that people are duking out the last fight over it. The people who still hate are acting out because they’re feeling like the world is forgetting to hate with them.
Thanks, douchebags. You’ve sealed the deal on sending the reasonable majority to our side.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=752727735 Nik Davis

I really think it’s backlash from all the progress we’ve made over the last few years. Think about it: It’s not legal nationally yet, but we can get married/get civil unions in some states now. DADT was repealed, DOMA could be on the way out, sexual orientation is becoming increasingly included on lists of things you can’t discriminate against, and I’m sure there are other things I can’t recall right now, but we HAVE been making progress. Slowly but surely we ARE getting there.

There are people in the country who are NOT happy about that, and they are lashing out.

The important thing here is to NOT GIVE UP. Every time someone does something like this, people need to know about it. People need to know that it is unacceptable and just plain WRONG to act this way. Post it on blogs, shout it from the rooftops..THIS IS WRONG and the people who are doing it are WRONG.
http://www.facebook.com/michael.castleberry1 Michael Castleberry

I like how you can tell they ran out of room and had to settle on “the gay”
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Anita-Cunningham/770763190 Anita Cunningham

I am a Christian, and I abhore the treatment these young women received. My Jesus would defend them, love and welcome them. My Jesus is the God of Love, not hatred and intolerance. God bless you two and all the other people who are abused because of fear and hate.

Love,
A. Cunningham,
http://profiles.google.com/tdwallin428 Terrell Wallin

I’m so disturbed that things like these happen in my home of Colorado. I was always surrounded by loving and supportive people so it’s shocking to see these things happen here.
http://twitter.com/brandonkalyan Brandon Kalyan

Such terrible news, please continue to be strong, your courage and bravery are greatly admirable! I pray for you safety and justice, even with the little that show blatant hate, please remember they are people all over the world including myself, that without even knowing your name loves you TENFOLD that those bigoted bastards would ever be able to comprehend!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1484041630 Keith Straley

My gods that’s atrocious. The spacing, the alignment, the grammar; all wrong. I swear you can’t trust a homophobe to do anything right. I propose a national ban on selling spray-paint to bigots, I mean, clearly they have no idea what they’re doing.
http://www.facebook.com/Mikeydeno Michael Denomme

We need to start something like the Freedom Riders. No matter how much violence they faced from the mob, people, and crooked cops they kept the busses coming. We need to unite and face violence head on. “Busses are a comin’ oh yeah”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G2WSJS7KMYZQK2ANFWQTKPKYFA Jeremy Cantrell

that is messed up. that is a hate crime right there. it is blatantly illegal and the police should look into it
http://profile.yahoo.com/JBNTEITV5V3NDBZ2F2GEOSWMYE Raymond S

They’ve been arrested, it was fake they did it to themselfs.

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