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Vanessa Romo

Community unites after an LGBTQ+ senior housing project in Boston was defaced

Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc, said the hateful messages were discovered early Sunday morning. (LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc)

The road to building The Pryde, a Boston housing development aimed at LGBTQ+ seniors, has been surprisingly smooth. That's what made last weekend's homophobic vandalism all the more shocking.

"It was more horrible than I ever imagined it could be because every single one of our banners and signs that we had put up for the groundbreaking had some sort of of graffiti and hateful language and threats painted on it," Gretchen Van Ness, executive director of LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc, one of the groups behind the project, told NPR.

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