West Hollywood Drag-Themed Art Display Vandalized Days After Pride

A public photo art display celebrating drag queens and LA Pride history has become the target of vandalism in West Hollywood.  The life-size portraits come from an essay on the second West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval in the late 1980s, and have been on display along the Sunset Strip section of Sunset Boulevard since May 1. Now, more than a dozen of them have been burned, tagged with graffiti, stabbed, or slashed.  Local station KABC-TV spoke with the artist responsible for the displays, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of her personal safety.  “Some of the images were burned and they were gouged with some kind […]