An Overlea woman said she will return the $43,000 in donations she received through an online fundraising campaign she began after claiming a neighbor complained her yard was "becoming Relentlessly Gay."
Julie Baker received a note describing her yard as "relentlessly gay" after
she put up jars in the colors of the rainbow in her yard. She has
responded to this with a GoFundMe effort to decorate her house with more
rainbows.
Baker started the fundraiser after finding a note at the door of her Kenwood
Avenue home where she had decorated her yard with a rainbow-colored lawn
ornament.
"Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!" the note
said. "Myself and Others in the neighborhood ask that you Tone It Down.
This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will
be Forced to call the Police on You! Your kind need to have Respect for
GOD."
She posted a picture of the note on Facebook and created the GoFundMe page
to raise $50 or to paint rainbows on her house, she said. But the note
exploded online, garnering support from all over, and the donations came
flooding in. Some skeptics criticized her, believing the note was fake.
'Relentlessly Gay' yard donations to be returned, Overlea woman says - Baltimore Sun
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