Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel , NBC6.net WILTON MANORS -- Vandals spray-painted anti-gay slurs on three homes and a car early this morning, police say. The incidents in this Broward County suburb are being investigated as a hate crime, police spokesman David Jones said. Wilton Manors is considered a gay-friendly neighborhood, Sun Sentinel reports, and has a significant gay population. An estimated 40 percent of its residents are gay, according to census data. Jones said this is the first time this kind of vandalism has happened in the area and it appears to be random. The words "gay"...(read more) ...

It's happening everywhere! Three homes in Wilton Manors, adjacent to Fort Lauderdale, were tagged by vandals early this morning, the Miami Herald reports: "Someone wrote the slurs on three adjacent homes in the 2800 block of Northeast Seventh Avenue, an area with a large gay population. Five cars were also defaced with black spray paint. However, Wilton Manors police investigator David C. Jones believes that it was a random attack, as a straight couple live in one of the homes hit. That came as little consolation to Aaron Challancin, who awoke Friday morning to cops knocking on his door. When he ...