Squashed Pride cake at Boyne City grocery store sparks widespread support – NBC Chicago

People across the country are rallying in support of a northern Michigan grocery store after a vandal destroyed one of its Pride month-themed cakes.

A cake decorator at Family Fare Supermarket in Boyne City had decorated several of the bakery’s cakes with rainbows and colorful buttercream in honor of Pride month. Although the cakes were received positively on social media, where the decorator posted pictures of her creations, not everyone was.

A colleague discovered that one of the Pride cakes had been crushed in the bakery’s cold storage room and had fallen apart under the crushed plastic container.

“At first I was discouraged … like someone was saying, ‘If you didn’t want this to happen, you shouldn’t have done it,'” the interior designer, who wishes to remain anonymous, said in an interview with NBC affiliate WPBN.

However, she decided to post a picture of the act of vandalism on social media, saying she wanted the world to know about the cake’s destruction because the vandal “wanted to keep it hidden and secret.”

Carrie Miller, a Boyne City resident and one of many who saw the image, said the destruction of the cake didn’t feel right to her.

“It just broke my heart,” Miller said. “People should be able to celebrate whatever they want to celebrate, whether it’s a Pride cake or a birthday cake.”

She posted that she would sponsor the purchase of 10 Pride cakes from the grocery store’s bakery. Since then, Miller said, people from as far away as Vermont have reached out to sponsor a cake in solidarity.

“Hopefully a bad situation has turned into something more positive,” she added.

The Family Fare cake decorator said the nationwide support had brought her to tears, adding that the most important thing was for people to know there are others who are rooting for them.

“Cake is cake,” said the decorator. “Cake is a celebration. That’s why I invented it: so that someone has something to celebrate.”

She said the Pride cakes are for everyone to enjoy.