The State - News from July 31, 1989

In the second attack on his home in two months, a man found his house defaced in the latest in a series of attacks on gays by assailants espousing hatred of homosexuals, San Francisco police said. Glen Eichelberger awoke on his 44th birthday to find anti-gay epithets painted on the stucco wall of his Sunset District house. The vandals also splashed Eichelberger’s car with red paint. “This is terrorism,” Eichelberger said. Also scrawled on the wall were the letters “SDI,” which police say stands for Sunset District Inc., a gang of white youths espousing a white-power philosophy that includes hatred of Jews and homosexuals, among others. Eichelberger’s home was attacked about two months ago by vandals who stole a gay pride flag and returned it half burned with black swastikas and anti-gay slogans written on it, police said. Eichelberger speculated that his work volunteering for AIDS victims may have motivated the vandals’ action. Police said they have stepped up patrols in the area.