{"id":11638,"date":"2023-09-06T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:53:38","slug":"a-shooting-over-a-pride-flag-underscores-the-threat-of-republican-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11638","title":{"rendered":"A shooting over a Pride flag underscores the threat of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Laura Ann Carleton, 66, a California business owner, was shot and killed last weekend after a gunman tore down an LGBTQ Pride flag hanging outside her store and shouted homophobic slurs. Since then,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/08\/22\/pride-flag-shooting-california-lgbtq-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">law enforcement has revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that the gunman \u2014 who was killed in an encounter with police \u2014 also posted numerous anti-LGBTQ posts on social media accounts they believe are affiliated with him.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/8\/23\/23843063\/california-pride-flag-shooting-laura-ann-carleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/8\/23\/23843063\/california-pride-flag-shooting-laura-ann-carleton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Laura Ann Carleton, 66, a California business owner, was shot and killed last weekend after a gunman tore down an LGBTQ Pride flag hanging outside her store and shouted homophobic slurs. Since then, law enforcement has revealed that the gunman \u2014 who was killed in an encounter with police \u2014 also posted numerous anti-LGBTQ posts on social media accounts they believe are affiliated with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/8\/23\/23843063\/california-pride-flag-shooting-laura-ann-carleton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[53,696,109,697,1205,188,192,919,972,1290],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-deaths","tag-gay","tag-guns","tag-homosexual","tag-homosexuality","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-lgbtq","tag-murder","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11639,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}