{"id":194,"date":"2022-12-20T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:37:27","slug":"anti-lgbtq-protesters-break-into-apartment-building-of-councilmember-erik-bottcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/2022\/12\/anti-lgbtq-protesters-break-into-apartment-building-of-councilmember-erik-bottcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-LGBTQ Protesters Break Into Apartment Building of Councilmember Erik Bottcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the night of Monday, December 19th, several protesters were outside of Councilmember Erik Bottcher&#8217;s home of which two were arrested after breaking into the apartment building. The protesters left anti-LGBTQ slurs across the property outside and inside the building. Councilmember Bottcher is one of New York City&#8217;s openly-gay elected officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These events have transpired since a Drag Queen Story Hour took place at a public library which the councilmember attended last Saturday. Reports also state he was met with slurs and harassment on his way to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight the Drag Story Hour protesters came to my apartment building and gained entry. My super called the cops and two of them were arrested for trespassing. This is pure hate, unmasked. If they think this is going to intimidate us, they\u2019re mistaken. Our resolve is strengthened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i45eyGg1AS\">pic.twitter.com\/i45eyGg1AS<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ebottcher\/status\/1605017815026638848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W42ST, Sarah Beling, <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/homophobic-protesters-target-erik-bottcher-home\/\">&#8220;Homophobic Protesters Arrested after Targeting Hell\u2019s Kitchen Council Member Erik Bottcher\u2019s Home&#8221;<\/a> (December 20, 2022)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 people were arrested for breaking into the apartment of Councilmember Erik Bottcher, one of New York City&#8217;s openly-gay elected officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[111,7,8,9,109,110,108,38,75,112],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtqia-news","tag-councilmember-erik-bottcher","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-state-of-new-york","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-usa","tag-w42st","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}