We've been working with the LGBTQ community and the city, governments and county governments for decades,' Hoch said, who pointed out he was Florida's first openly gay judge in the 1990s. His organization alongside the AIDS Healthcare Foundation paid $16,000 for the artwork's installment. 'When I first saw the video, I was just taken aback,' Rand Hoch, president of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council (PBCHRC), told Newsweek. 'Just two days after we joyously celebrated the ribbon cutting of the Delray Beach Pride Streetscape, a young man from a nearby town callously vandalized this symbol of unity and inclusion,' Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia said in a statement to Newsweek.
Read more: /PrmKmOJjKS- WPEC CBS12 News June 18, 2021 WATCH: A man was arrested after he was caught on camera doing what appeared to be an intentional “burnout” with his vehicle over the LGBTQ pride crosswalk in Delray Beach, causing significant damage to the streetscape painting.
