Gay Pride posters defaced at Dept. of Labor

[WillParkinson]

Gay Pride posters defaced at Dept. of Labor


Posters celebrating Gay Pride Month hanging in 35 Department of Labor elevators were defaced or removed, prompting Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to issue a warning letter.

The New York Times reports that Solis, who helped found the House of Representative’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Caucus when she was in Congress, was outraged and wrote an email to the department.

“It appears, however, that some members of the Labor Department team have a different view, as it has come to my attention that most of the posters have been continually defaced or removed,” Solis wrote. “On several occasions, even the poster frames have been torn completely off the elevator walls.”

“I do not believe these actions represent the majority of our employees, so I refuse to let this situation define us.

She said that the posters will stay up through the end of June and will continue to replaced immediately if damaged or removed.

http://www.365gay.com/news/gay-pride-posters-defaced-at-dept-of-labor/

[redqueen]

1. Aren't there security cameras to catch the perpetrators?

Replacing them is nice, but how about some accountability.

[Divine Discontent]

2. or merely watching people go into the elevator by themselves & seeing if the posters are torn down

when they get off - seriously, if it's that bad, it should happen in the one day they spend watching it. you can also guess as to who is doing it by people's comments in general - I can always tell the homophobes at work with their opinions on the matter OR commentary about other issues that they let slip. They're so neanderthal, so it shouldn't be that hard to find them and suspend them for destroying gov't property.

[ThomCat]

3. It is rare to find a building that doesn't have cameras in the elevators

at this point. It is standard procedure for security purposes in every building where I've ever done telecom consulting. (I dealt with the cabling)

I tend to look for the cameras out of habit and it's very rare that I don't see the camera in elevators in corporate or government buildings.

I bet if someone made a request to the building's security department they have digital video of every elevator, but they only keep it stored for a certain length of time before it gets over-written with new video, so you have to make the request within that time limit.

[galledgoblin]

4. that's crazy!

very sad to see, I'd be raging mad if I were working there.