After their home was vandalized with anti-LGBTQ+ graffiti, a family in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, turned the hateful message into one of love and pride.
Becky Willems woke up on the morning of August 11th to a text from her son, Sam, who found the words “family of f**s” spraypainted on their garage door as he left for work.
At the suggestion of their neighbor, rather than "fighting fire with fire", The Willemses painted over the anti-gay slur and added hearts and rainbows so that the message on their garage door now reads “Proud family of 2SLGBTQ+.”
The community’s response to the hateful message has been overwhelmingly positive. “We are proud of who we are, we’re proud of ourselves as a family and we’re proud of the 2SLGBTQ+ people in our family, in our community, and within our friends,” Willems told CTV News.
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Selected excerpt(s) and linked article courtesy of John Russell, lgbtqnation(dot)com
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