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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomeone chained a cross to gates in Gay St in Greenwich Village
The response from the locals was wonderful.
On Good Friday, a mysterious giant wooden cross appeared on Gay Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, chained and locked to an apartment gate.
Over the next nine days, the cross owner would return and chain the cross to different parts of the street making it impossible for others to move it.
To be honest, Im a Christian, and the cross means, love, peace and hope. And it was clear the owner of this cross did not share those values, Gay St. resident Micah Latter, whose gate the cross was first chained to, told HuffPost. Whatever [this persons] point, [it] was lost in translation. Their actions were pointless and annoying.
Latter posted daily Instagram updates of the cross location and tried to seek help for its removal from authorities, which was unsuccessful. So, he had an idea: Why not turn the cross into a symbol of love and acceptance and take the power back from its owner?
On Sunday, Latter and ten neighbors and friends gathered to paint the cross the colors of the LGBTQ rainbow flag. They drank champagne and changed the locks so the original owner can no longer move it ― theyre now calling it The Love Cross.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/love-cross-nyc_us_58ff5447e4b0b6f6014ac24e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Someone chained a cross to gates in Gay St in Greenwich Village (Original Post)
Kentonio
Apr 2017
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ExciteBike66
(2,357 posts)1. Heh
good work, folks!
I wonder if the apartment building mentioned at the beginning had a super, though? My last smallish building had one living on site and he owned a pair of bolt-cutters...
Me.
(35,454 posts)2. Yes I Wondered About That
My bldg. would've had it removed. Maybe she worried she didn't have the authority to do so.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)3. picture here:
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)4. I like the finished one too. :)
So good when love beats hate.
MagickMuffin
(15,940 posts)5. YEA, for Proactive Solutions to negative and reactive Hate
I bet the originator of the cross feels dejected, by the positive Spirit of these Lovable People!!!
They brought Light to the Darkness.