Leesburg Today
August 25, 2006
By Charlie Jackson
Religious groups, businesses and other organizations announced the launch of a foundation dubbed The Cypress Project dedicated to helping those targeted by anti-gay hate crimes across the state.
Loudoun Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kraig Troxell said a recent vandalism of a gay couple’s Aldie home is being investigated as a hate crime, the first such incident in recent memory.
The Cypress Project was developed, according to David Weintraub of the gay rights group Equality Loudoun, out of the response community members made to the Aldie incident.