In the near-decade that Stacy Parker LeMelle has lived across the
street from the Atlah Worldwide Missionary Church on Lenox Avenue, she
has had to swallow a daily dose of outrage. There — on one of the most
important streets in the history of black culture and in the middle of
the city where the modern gay rights movement began — it stands: an
official letter board sign used to regularly promote racist and
homophobic hate.
"Jesus would stone homos," trumpeted one of the
more jarring messages mounted outside the church in recent years,
stopping many a passerby cold. "Obama has released the homo demons on
the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man,"
read another.
At first LeMelle tried to ignore it,
occasionally laughing at the proclamations when they became too much to
walk past without yielding to some sort of emotional reaction.
Eventually, though, she and her neighbors decided they had seen enough.
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