Strife at the garden fence: If the neighbor finds the garden "too gay"
Why not bring a little color into play? Together with her daughters, Jamie Baker from Baltimore decorated her garden and hung up a row of colorful candlelight. This cheerful rainbow necklace did not look good on one of its neighbors. With this anonymous message, he (or she) complained to Jamie:
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You have to come to that first! Jamie's garden is "mercilessly gay," the anonymous grumbler accuses the mother. She should refrain with colors, because "this is a Christian area and here are children," says the angry message. Stay the rainbow colors, they will soon get visit from the police. "People like you should have more respect for God," the devout neighbor demands.
And what is Jamie doing? Instead of annoying so much intolerance and narrow-mindedness, she goes on the offensive - with a crowdfunding action. "Of course I need more rainbows," she writes on the platform "GoFundMe", where she asks for $ 5,000 to make her garden even more colorful. Within hours, she had reached her destination.
#relentlesslygay: Twitter users show solidarity:
Dozens of people came to Facebook and Twitter, offering their help or even more rainbow decoration to Jamie. Meanwhile, even the $ 30,000 limit has been blown up. More than enough money for Jamie to fulfill her promise: Her garden shed should have a rainbow roof so that her "invisible, merciless gay rainbow dragon can live upright in style there."
The widowed mother of four children did not want to hate hatred but to fight him with "temper and beauty and laughter and love." We could not have imagined a better reaction.
