Same-sex couple paints their house rainbow to troll their homophobic neighbors

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Love trumps hate — and so does a good layer of paint. 

Lisa Licata and Sherry Lau are a same-sex couple living in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. For years, they've claimed that their homophobic neighbors, Ron Makay and Iolanda Wieczorkowski, have taunted them with hateful slurs, even going so far as to shoot their dog with an air rifleThe neighbor denies the latter allegation, though Makay has been charged by police with animal cruelty.

After the slurs first intensified, Licata and Lau decided to paint their fence rainbow in proud defiance. That didn't stop the neighbors from complaining. Read more...

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