'America needs to get it together': Vandals deface WeHo LGBTQ portraits, bringing artist to tears

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'America needs to get it together': Vandals deface WeHo LGBTQ portraits, bringing artist to tears
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Vandals targeted a public art exhibition on the Sunset Strip celebrating drag queens in West Hollywood, leaving the artist fearing for her safety and wondering how people could be so nasty to each other.

More than a dozen life-sized photos from an essay on the second West Hollywood Halloween street celebration in the 1980s have been burned, gouged and covered in graffiti after Pride week celebrations.

"I just think the energy of the country just sucks. It's like America needs to get it together, I don't know whey people have to be so nasty to each other," the artist said."Some of the images were burned and they were gouged with some kind of instrument. It just makes me sad," she said."Keep going girl. Don't listen to those people, you deserve everything. You are doing a great job expressing yourself.

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