The EuroPride celebration was to take place September 12-18.
The hospital's own phone operators and website made the situation much much worse.
"We clutched each other in a long hug in the hallway standing just outside the door, trying through tears to reassure each other," Buttigieg and his husband recalled.
State law now requires schools to display donated "In God we trust" posters. So one parent tried donating rainbow and Arabic posters.