The office of the San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus is closed out of an abundance of caution after members started receiving a barrage of negative messages, including death threats, in response to a mischaracterization of a song the group posted to YouTube, its executive director said Thursday.
Chris Verdugo, a gay man who is the executive director of the chorus, told the Bay Area Reporter July 8 that the website InfoWars run by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones called the song A Message from the Gay Community pedophilic in an online article July 7. That apparently unleashed the vitriol. The threat that stuck in my head, Verdugo said of the harassing messages he fielded, was, We re gonna put lead in your head. That was quite frightening.
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With $35,000 from San Mateo County and donations from community supporters, the new CoastPride Community Center in Half Moon Bay surpassed its fundraising goal of $75,000 and plans to hire a part-time administrator to help oversee the LGBTQ facility on a one-year contract.
Located in a prime spot in the coastal city s downtown district, the LGBTQ center officially opened its doors June 1 and launched the fundraising drive to help support its operations. The all-volunteer run group CoastPride launched in August 2019 with the goal to not only bring services to LGBTQ residents between Pacifica and Pescadero but also to open its own center.