A homophobe firebombed a drag-friendly doughnut shop. He’s going away for years.

A man who firebombed a doughnut shop because it hosted a show that included drag performers just got sentenced to five years in prison.

Coby Green, 25, was outraged that The Donut Hole in Tulsa, Oklahoma hosted an event in October 2022 that included drag queens.

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Wearing a Trump/Pence sticker and brown face paint, the woman shouted about how LGBTQ+ people “took our flag forever.”

“Ok, it’s officially time to shine our boots and put on our armbands boys,” he wrote on social media, according to the probable cause affidavit. “This disgusting filth has got to go.”

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The Donut Hole faced vandalism on October 17, 2022, and Green commented on a story about it: “I’m just sad they didn’t molotov it.”

So that’s what he did.

On October 31, 2022, a man posted an anti-LGBTQ+ flyer to the Donut Hole at 2:30 a.m. and then lit a Molotov cocktail, busted a window with a baseball bat, and threw the Molotov cocktail into the shop. He was caught on surveillance footage wearing a mask and a hoodie.

No one was hurt in the limited fire, but it did result in some property damage.

Police recognized him from the footage though, since he had previous run-ins with the law due to an unrelated arson case and complaints about him leaving anti-LGBTQ+ flyers at other businesses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Oklahoma. Cellphone data put Green at the scene of the crime, and a search of his home turned up the same clothes as the man in the video wore, the same lighter as in the video, and more copies of the flyer, Law & Crime reports.

Police also found that he had newspapers containing reports about the firebombing published the day after it occurred, which authorities said may have been “trophies.”

“These serve as a memory aid of the crime or as a way for the person to memorialize what they have done, especially if they were committing the crime for grandeur, status or simply something for which they are proud,” court records state.

Green was arrested and pled guilty in August 2023 to malicious use of explosive materials with a hate crime enhancement. He was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release.

LGBTQ+ advocates called out anti-LGBTQ+ and particularly anti-drag rhetoric, saying that the firebombing was a result of so many conservatives on social media associating drag with pedophilia.

Trans activist and Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic instructor Alejandra Caraballo noted on X that there has been a larger pattern of violence and threats of violence against businesses that host drag events, which has often been “celebrated” online by anti-LGBTQ+ activists, encouraging more such violence and threats of violence.

“We’ve seen a repeated pattern of violent threats made against venues that host drag shows, especially after being highlighted by Christopher Rufo and Libs of Tiktok,” she wrote at the time. “The events are then canceled due to safety and security concerns. Rufo and LoTT then celebrate the cancellation.”