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Johnson & Johnson pledges to pay repair costs for Pulse memorial defaced by white supremacists
Johnson & Johnson with the LGBT+ Center Orlando to repair a mural commemorating the Pulse nightclub mass shooting. The mural was defaced with white nationalist stickers.
The company’s Care With Pride initiative will pay $5,000 to repaint the mural.
Since 2011, the program has donated over one million dollars to LGBTQ nonprofit groups including PFLAG, Trevor Project, Family Equality, and a wide variety of other Pride organizations.
“Last week we were made aware that the memorial dedicated to the victims of the Pulse shooting that lives on the side of the Orlando LGBTQ+ Center was vandalized,” Johnson & Johnson spokesperson Bianca Soler told LGBTQ Nation.
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