Erin Davies with her defaced Beetle above, and with the car's new paint job that promotes her documentary via Vanity Fair and AllOverAlbany

A 2002 VW Beetle that became known as “fagbug” is now is now for sale on craigslist. Cost? $10,000.

The car was vandalized in Albany, NY during the 11th annual National Day of Silence on April 18, 2007 and later became the subject of a documentary movie.

While Erin Davies’s bug was parked on an Albany street two years ago, a vandal sprayed the words “u r gay” on the hood and “fAg” on the driver side door and window, apparently because the car sported a rainbow sticker.

Instead of cleaning hateful words off of her gray bug, Erin decided to turn the vandalism into a “teachable moment”.

As Vanity Fair explained it, “She went on a 58-day driving trip around the US and Canada letting her fag flag fly, and campaigning against hate crimes.”

Along the way, she taped documentary about the journey in the car that became known worldwide as the “fagbug”.

“She talked to victims of hate crimes. She talked to guys who changed her oil. She talked to student groups. And she filmed all of it for a documentary, aptly titled Fagbug, which is now screening in festivals all around the country,” Brett Berk recounts in Vanity Fair’s “gay car blog”.

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During her trip, Davies covered 45 states and put more than 50,000 miles on her car, Sage Colleges explains in a news item about the trip.

“It's personal,” Davies explained to All Over Albany while she was editing the documentary, “but it's also an experience for others to see. It's a journey."

She explained, “People don’t have to care about me personally, or my feelings or any of that, but the point is this journey I've taken and just how most people have never really seen this kind of thing before.”

For the documentary’s final scene, Erin decided to clean the graffiti off of the car and turn the whole vehicle into one giant rainbow sticker, that advertises the documentary and its website. The film ends with the one-year anniversary of the attack and the unveiling of the car at Albany’s Sage College where Davies is a graduate student.

“Fag Bug has become much more than when it started,” Davies told WNYT when she unveiled its new livery. “And to be able to transform it into something positive, rather than have people look at my car and be upset and hurt, I’d rather they look and see how bright the colors are, see something fun and playful instead of something hurtful.”
  
The craigslist post explains, “Erin is ready to stop driving the fagbug and get a new car. She would like someone to get it who either wants to drive it or put it to some type of good use. She wanted to have it in a museum but hasn't found one yet so thought she'd post this add on craigslist and see if there are any bites.”