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American Apparel Fights Homophobia
4th August 2009
By dudeposthost

An American Apparel store in Washington D.C., USA, was vandalised for supporting gay rights and staff say they’ve received death threats.

You may have seen the ‘offensive’ t-shirts that sparked the recent vandalism and violence here in Australia. With the slogan, ‘Legalise Gay. Repeal Prop 8 Now’ the American Apparel brand were sending a very clear message on where they stand on the issue – and it seems some local residents took offense, and took up arms.

The front window of a Silver Spring store in outer Washington D.C. was smashed at around 5am yesterday and a follow up phone call was made by the vandal to the store dishing out death threats for store employees, according to an abc report in the US.

The American Apparel company released this statement regarding the incident yesterday:

“Yesterday an American Apparel store in Silver Spring, Maryland had a window broken by someone upset over the company’s support for gay marriage. Our Georgetown location and others in the areas have received similar threats.

“We just wanted to use this forum here to announce that not only are they not going to prevent us from speaking out on an issue that is important to this company and our employees but we’ll continue to run Legalize Gay advertisements in papers across DC-Metro area.

“We’ll also send Legalize Gay t-shirts to any group in Washington DC that is fighting for gay rights and will help support any protest or rally for the cause.We don’t find this kind of thing funny and we definitely don’t find it intimidating.”