To enter Reykjavik’s Grafarvogur Lutheran church, worshippers and visitors are invited to make their way down 16 steps painted in the rainbow stripes and the white, pink, blue, brown and black chevrons(V形图案) of the Progress Pride(进步骄傲旗) flag. The artwork, which can even be seen on satellite pictures, was originally a project of former head pastor Guðrún Karls Helgudóttir, now the bishop of Iceland, and her colleagues. The point was to show support for the LGBTQ+(性少数群体) community’s “need to be visible and accepted”, the church’s current head pastor, Arna Sigurðardóttir, told me.
要进入雷克雅未克的格拉法沃古尔路德教堂，信徒和访客需要沿着16级台阶走下去，台阶上绘有彩虹条纹以及进步骄傲旗的白、粉、蓝、棕、黑V形图案。这幅艺术品甚至可以在卫星照片上看到，最初是前首席牧师古德伦·卡尔尔斯·赫尔古多蒂尔（现为冰岛主教）及其同事的项目。教堂现任首席牧师阿尔纳·西于尔扎多蒂告诉我，其目的是表达对LGBTQ+群体“需要被看见和被接纳”的支持。
And then some time in between the barely faded midnight sun(午夜太阳) of 7 July and the early morning light of 8 July, someone painted over(涂掉，覆盖) all those colours with just three: blue on the outside, and two thin strips of white encasing(包裹，包围) a thicker strip of red in the centre.
然后，在7月7日几乎未褪色的午夜阳光和7月8日清晨的光线之间，有人用三种颜色覆盖了所有这些色彩：外侧是蓝色，中间是两条细白条夹着一条较粗的红条。
The church’s pride flag had been defaced(污损，破坏外观) twice before, both times in 2022, once with black scribbling(乱涂，潦草书写) alluding to(暗指，提及) a verse from the Old Testament(《旧约》).
教堂的骄傲旗此前曾两次被污损，两次都发生在2022年，一次是用黑色涂鸦暗示《旧约》中的一节经文。