Tulsa Donut Shop Firebombed Over Drag Queens. Anyone Truly Shocked?
We LGBTQ folks hope our friends are paying attention.
Donut shop hosts performance art with drag queens, then this happens …
The man in the screenshots above is shattering the windows of a donut shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then hurling a Molotov cocktail. Moments before, the man can be seen taping a note filled with Bible verses and anti-gay/anti-transgender slurs to the window of a neighboring shop.
Only by a fluke of good fortune, which I’ll break down in a minute, did The Donut Hole escape going up in flames Monday. The two owners and one employee still have jobs, but barely.
This morning I spoke to one of the owners, Sarah, to ask how everyone is holding up and to get her take on a shocking event that LGBTQ advocates warn is a sign of worse to come.
She says the three of them are edgy but otherwise okay, reminding me this is the second time her shop has been vandalized over a “Queens Dirty Dozens” art event that features drag queens serving donuts and donut sculptures.
Artist Daniel Gulick staged a successful event at The Donut Hole on October 15 , after which the shop was broken into and the point-of-sale system stolen. A…
