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A historic Muni streetcar was pulled out of service last week after anti-gay graffiti was found on one of the placards on the side of the train. The streetcar, dedicated to the late Harvey Milk, was tagged sometime during Pride, the Bay Area Reporter reports. "Sometime during Pride Month a tagger wrote the word 'fag' on Milk's chin and blackened out one of his front teeth on a photo of the late politician on one of the panels." On a different sign, the BAR goes on to say, the tagger(s) "wrote the word 'faggot.'" Mean! SFMTA spokesman Judson True said, "Especially in this historic week we want to be sure to honor Milk's legacy on this streetcar so we will do everything we can to remove any graffiti and get the dedication panels back in place as quickly as possible." This week, if you recall, Milk was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Anyway, the defaced streetcar was given a Silkwood-scrub down of any and all anti-gay graffiti, and put back into service on Tuesday.
Milk F-Market Streetcar Defaced With Homosexual Slurs
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Looks like those OaklandIST restaurant or whatever people are butthurt about not being blogged about
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It was probably some kid from Sacramento.
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Pretty fuckin lame.
damn bridge & tunnel crowd - you don't see us coming over to Fremont and defacing your Wal-Mart
dear bridge and tunnel crowd,
we are better than you.
sincerely,
san francisco
Not surprising in a city which actually uses taxpayer dollars to pay for tagging classes.
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3352
And for those so certain this was the bridge and tunnel crowd, remember that 1 out of every 4 San Franciscan's voted FOR Prop 8.
I suck at math, but according to the SF Department of Elections 92,536 voted for prop 8, and according to the census bureau the population of SF in 2008 was 808,976, so the statement, "1 out of every 4 San Franciscan's voted FOR Prop 8," seems a tad inaccurate to me.
92,536 likely equates to 1 out of 4 votes cast by San Franciscans. Some San Franciscans are under 18, not citizens or choose not to vote.
you've got to count out non-voters (under-18 and unregistered adults)
More accurately: 1 out of every 4 San Franciscan VOTERS last year did sadly say yes to Prop 8. Here's the state breakdown of the vote by county:
http://jamesewelch.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/california-proposition-8-vote-analysis-by-county/
So SF County had by far the lowest % of yes votes, what does that prove
That there's a decent chance this ignorance was homegrown and not from the big complicated country on the other side of the bridges and Stonestown Mall that people here in town are so apt to villify.
LOL, this: "damn bridge & tunnel crowd - you don't see us coming over to Fremont and defacing your Wal-Mart"
"The Homosexual Slurs" sounds like a good name for a punk band.
hahha ohmygod best
As much as I agree that ignorant, hateful vandalism of this nature is just that, can someone please remind me why this is "newsworthy?"