“Yes I remember that garage door incident. The anti-gay slurs were painted on the garage door of a house where two lesbians lived.”
I remember that too. We called it a hoax and we were correct.
Lets be honest shall we? No one has attacked gays since AIDS. I remember when AIDS first came on the scene and they were dying of it in hospital. Nurses would leave their food outside the door and not bring it in to them because they were so afraid of catching the disease. It was the COVID of it’s day. Really not even COVID more like leprosy.
In my state a gay man with the AIDS jumped into a pool in the early 90’s and everyone jumped out in panic. That pool was drained and cleaned extremely well. I’ll be honest with you I’m all but shocked that guy ended up dying of AIDS and did not end up at the bottom of a coal mine. It’s probably because he had the AIDS he did not. Yes this is the same story you saw on Oprah too. When he died of the AIDS shortly after he was buried beside his parents but the other family had their loved ones moved so he sat alone in the grave yard.
In that case, I can't find any on-line evidence that the incident was ever shown to be a hoax, in the sense that Lindsay and Charles actually did the graffiti themselves, although no one was ever charged for having done so.
Another, similar case was that of Carol Ann and Laura Jean Stutte, of Vonore, Tennessee. They claimed a long-running dispute with a neighbor who supposedly objected to their lifestyle. They not only painted anti-homosexual graffiti on their garage, but (in 2010) also burned the house down. It was eventually proved to be a hoax in court; their reason was to commit insurance fraud, to the tune of $276K.
They were never charged with any crime, but they didn't get the insurance money either. The neighbor was exonerated.
Another one happened in Lincoln, Nebraska, back in 2012. The "victim" was named Charlie Rogers, a former member of the University of Nebraska basketball team. She had nasty words carved into her flesh, and her house was set on fire but was only damaged. She was sentenced to a 90 day jail term after her trial for the hoax, but "never showed up" when it came time for her to start her term of imprisonment.