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2023-06-27 20:05:29 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

This 2015 letter is likely a hoax. The person who allegedly received this note would not produce it for police and made false public statements about having talked with them. She went on to raise over $40,000 from a viral crowdfunding campaign https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/18/relentlessly-gay/ https://mattpilz.com/relentlessly-gay-fundraiser-by-julie-baker-suspicions-abound/ https://www.salon.com/2015/07/02/woman_behind_relentlessly_gay_fundraiser_seems_to_have_been_scamming_everyone/ https://www.metroweekly.com/2015/07/was-the-baltimore-relentlessly-gay-yard-fundraiser-a-hoax/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3146256/Was-relentlessly-gay-yard-campaign-giant-GoFundMe-hoax-Mom-raised-43-000-claiming-Christian-neighbor-homophobic-accused-FAKING-threats.html

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• This 2015 letter is likely a hoax. The person who allegedly received this note would not produce it for police and made false public statements about having talked with them. She went on to raise over $40,000 from a viral crowdfunding campaign https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/18/relentlessly-gay/ https://mattpilz.com/relentlessly-gay-fundraiser-by-julie-baker-suspicions-abound/ https://www.salon.com/2015/07/02/woman_behind_relentlessly_gay_fundraiser_seems_to_have_been_scamming_everyone/ https://www.metroweekly.com/2015/07/was-the-baltimore-relentlessly-gay-yard-fundraiser-a-hoax/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3146256/Was-relentlessly-gay-yard-campaign-giant-GoFundMe-hoax-Mom-raised-43-000-claiming-Christian-neighbor-homophobic-accused-FAKING-threats.html