Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown was also among those sharing his upset at the crime.
“This is disgraceful. I’ve got no time for intolerance of people’s differences,” he said.
“Plus, this is just another form of graffiti on other people’s property that we will need to spend money fixing – which I hate.”
Newshub spoke to passersby in the area on Thursday morning.
“I was pretty horrified to show up on K Road and be met with someone trying to cover up the proud queer pride that we’ve got here… the audacity,” Bones Dreadon said.
“They obviously came here in the middle of the night as cowards, tried to do maybe a 10-minute job and every car that has passed here has taken off their work every time they’ve gone past.
“It’s a waste of time, they’ve really just given us publicity, and showed that the queer community is going to come together and show how stupid and how much of waste of their effort is.”
They said K Road was always going to be a queer-friendly, safe place for the community.
“Feeling safe on K Road is definitely a privilege, being queer and having our safe space so having that challenged this morning was definitely not something I prepared for when I woke up.”
Dreadon said the crime has the community coming together.
“We’ll show love when hate comes towards us,” they said.
“People are talking about how much they dislike it, I’ve seen people from lots of different communities come together and agree on how horrible this is.”