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Behind the Aegis

(56,216 posts) Sun Jul 24, 2022, 03:09 AM Jul 2022

An Illinois caf was vandalized with hate speech ahead of a drag show

An Illinois bakery and café has postponed a drag brunch event after their venue was vandalized early morning on Saturday.

Corinna Sac, the owner of UpRising Bakery and Café in Lake in the Hills, a village to the northwest of Chicago, had advertised the sold-out Saturday “brunch at night” event on Facebook, which was set to feature performances by three local drag queens and a raffle drawing, alongside the café’s standard brunch offerings.

Drag brunch events typically feature drag queens performing – singing, lipsyncing, and dancing – as live entertainment during brunch.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Lake in the Hills Police Department officers were notified of “in progress criminal damage to property,” the department said in a news release. Upon arrival, police arrested a suspect, who was charged with a hate crime and criminal damage to property. Both charges are Class 4 felonies, according to the police news release.

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An Illinois caf was vandalized with hate speech ahead of a drag show (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jul 2022 OP

This place is less than 3 miles away from where I live. ShazzieB Jul 2022 #1

This is terrorism TDale313 Jul 2022 #2

ShazzieB

(22,886 posts)

1. This place is less than 3 miles away from where I live.

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Sun Jul 24, 2022, 03:52 AM

Jul 2022

I hadn't even heard of Uprising until I started to see news stories about the drag brunch and people giving them a hard time about it. It's disgusting to see people around here being so stupid and hateful about something like this.

But then, who knows where the troublemakers are actually from. Back when there was still a mask mandate in place all over the state, a bunch of idiots came to my town and "protested" by prancing in and out of a few stores without masks. It turned out they weren't local but were just driving around from one suburb to another making asses of themselves.

No matter where these particular asses are from, though, it's disturbing to see this kind of hate and ugliness in my own backyard. I think I need to go buy some baked goods and give them my support!

TDale313

(7,822 posts)

2. This is terrorism

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Sun Jul 24, 2022, 03:57 AM

Jul 2022

These increasing threats of (and acts of) violence against the lgtbqa+ community, and the trans community in particular, are so disturbing and frightening.

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