Amoeba Music

On the morning of Wednesday, July 21, 1993, an incident occurred in the small South Georgia town of Willacoochee. Two gay men were awakened to find a seven-foot, charred cross in their front yard. Further compounding the problem were comments made by a Willacoochee City Council member who said he was not surprised by the incident because the town is largely "anti-gay". The Chief of Police said it was probably "a bunch of n-gg-rs down the road that did it". However, the cross burning was just the beginning.