Arcata Jew Mad Haters Cut Down Gay Tree

Arcata CA

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According to the Lost Coast Outhouse: Last week, while driving past a city-owned planter on the corner of 18th and H Streets in Arcata, Councilmember Emily Goldstein noticed the latest in a string of anti-LGBTQ acts in our community: Someone had cut down and removed a tree that had been decorated with hand-crafted Pride ornaments. The ornaments — made out of popsicle sticks and painted to resemble pride flags — along with a banner reading “love, joy, peace,” were hung on the ornamental cherry tree on June 25, during a gathering held in response to the burning of a pride flag that had hung in the same planter as the tree. “[Hanging] the ornaments on the tree was just supposed to be something small and sweet,” Goldstein, who had attended the June 25 gathering, told the Outpost this afternoon. “The whole event was very positive and very like, ‘we love the community.’” A couple of days after the event, Goldstein was driving past and wanted to admire the decorations and discovered that there was no tree. Truly, Pride goeth before a fall. I want to know how they cut it down without anyone hearing. That looks like a nice, clean, professional cut. But where's the tree? Maybe the people who had to look at it all day got tired of looking at all the fag flags? I say, good work, team. Do you suppose the council got the message? I doubt it. Paging Ben Dover!