For decades, the pink triangle on top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco has been an iconic symbol of Pride Month in San Francisco. But on Tuesday afternoon, that icon was vandalized.
Police arrested the suspect, 19-year-old Lester Bamacajeronimo, after receiving a report that someone was vandalizing portions of the dozens of pieces of pink canvas that comprise the triangle.
“Officers pursued the male suspect on foot and detained him,” the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
From ABC7:
“If it can happen here in San Francisco of all places, think what can happen in other parts of the country,” said Patrick Carney, co-founder of the pink triangle.
He says he got a call Tuesday afternoon from police telling him a 19-year-old man was defacing the triangle with black spray paint before being taken into custody.
“It’s been graffitied a couple of times before, and it was set in fire in 2009. They burned the whole center of the pink triangle up,” said Carney.
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the triangle in San Francisco. The project, consisting of 175 bright pink tarps, serves as a reminder of the persecution queer people have faced throughout history.
S.F.’s Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and Nazi persecution, is vandalized [image or embed]
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes.com) June 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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