Trevor Preisel, the executive director at the New Castle Prism Initiative, said the LGBTQIA+ members of the center were upset by vandalism on their Pride flags.
The center is located at the Third Independent Presbyterian Church in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is one of the only centers offering LGBTQIA+ support in the Shenango Valley area.
‘If people are doing things like this, if people are talking about you, it goes to show that what we’re doing is working.’
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They were preparing for a Pride festival on Wednesday when they discovered the vandalism.
“People had torn down the progress flags and just thrown them on the ground on both sides,” said Preisel, who showed the destruction to WKBN-TV.
“There was also one in this general area, and someone had just
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