Tulsa Donut Shop Hosts Celebration Event After Vandal Sentenced To Prison

The Donut Hole on Brookside had a line out the door as folks were excited to grab a free donut and see some faces they'd missed for quite some time.

"Today is about giving out donuts to the community and making it clear that we're here and we're everywhere," said Josie Lee Turrelle with "The Queens Dirty Dozens."

The donut shop has hosted "The Queens Dirty Dozens" event before in October of 2022. The event itself was a success, but vandals then struck the store two separate times.

"It's awesome, it feels really good because when everything happened, it was really scary," Josie Lee Turrelle said.

In the first incident, someone smashed the windows and stole items from inside. In the second, a man threw a Molotov cocktail into the store.

"It's terrifying. I mean it's terrifying, it almost made me want to quit doing drag with all the scary things going on in the world."

This week, a judge gave Coby Green, who pleaded guilty to the fire-bombing, five years in prison, with his sentence being enhanced because it was a hate crime.

"That saddens my heart but they came back, and they came back full force so that opens my heart as well," said a fan of the donut shop, Johanna Merrill.

The folks with the donut shop say they believe the crime backfired on Green because now, they don't plan to go anywhere soon.

"We're here, and we're there, and we're everywhere, and we're not going nowhere. We're drag queens, you can't get rid of us just like that honey," said Sasha Turrelle with "The Queens Dirty Dozens."

The store made over 700 fresh donuts to hand out to the public to thank it for all of the support after the damages.