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Aimenn D. Penny admitted to attacking the Community Church of Chesterland on March 25 using homemade Molotov cocktails, citing anger at two upcoming drag events.
The arsonist admitted to the FBI he “would have felt better” if he had “burned the entire church to the ground.”
He called the LGBTQ+ community a “virus” that required “shin[ing] our boots and putting on our armbands,” according to court documents.
A molotov cocktail sent the campaign office into flames and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton condemned the crime.
The video's makers deny any connection to the attack, and police haven't established one, but the investigation continues.
He also attended a massive protest by right-wing extremists at a drag event in a public park in Wadsworth, Ohio in early March.
The disgraced neo-Nazi Marine and his civilian accomplices hated all non-white people and hoped to start a race war, authorities say.
Drag queens who survived the Club Q mass shooting, the Pulse Massacre, and a Ohio church firebombing tell The Advocate about a coalition they've formed to support drag artists in the face of violence.
At least 66 incidents occurred between June 2022 and January 2024 in which a religious institution was targeted for its perceived support of LGBTQ+ people.
Trump said that he was specifically motivated to overhaul the center so he could end the drag shows it occasionally hosts.
Some of the incidents were violent, and the largest number took place in Texas, according to an updated report by GLAAD.
"We're trying to smile and make people happy for the holidays, and in the back of our heads we're thinking, I hope I don't get shot," Jinkx Monsoon said recently.
Anti-Semitism, domestic terrorism, hate speech, and an anti-LGBTQ+ fire bomb dominate an ugly week in America, mere child's play compared to next week's midterm fiasco.
“We’ve just seen the largest upticks in recruitment from the drag stuff,” says Josh Nunes, leader of National Socialist Florida.
Drag artists in a Colorado city are hosting their biggest show yet after a man allegedly threatened to carry out a mass shooting during one of their performances
The attack on three patrons at a gay bar was a crime against the entire city, the mayor of New Bedford, Mass., said at a candlelight vigil. The suspect, 18-year-old Jacob Robida (pictured), is still at large.
Misunderstandings are being fueled by anti-LGBTQ+ political rhetoric, says GLAAD's "Accelerating Acceptance" study.
