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After Arson, Las Vegas LGBTQ Center Vandalized With Antigay Graffiti

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Someone spray-painted a slur on the center's front door, an incident that comes shortly after a fire at the site.

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The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas was spray-painted with an antigay slur overnight, the second incident of vandalism at the center in just three months.

The word "fag" was spray-painted in black on the center's front door, staffers discovered when they arrived for work today, according to the center's Facebook page.

There was an arson fire in late June at the center, then known as the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, as someone torched a palm tree near the entrance. The fire was extinguished and the building escaped damage.

The city's fire department is continuing to investigate the arson, and police are investigating the graffiti incident. Center officials plan to cover the graffiti until it can be removed, local TV station KLAS reports.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.