You appear to have been taken in by the hoax punking of the Lavender BC, which astute FReepers revealed by examining closely the features of the claimed hoax image compared to clean images of the Lavender BC that were archived by FReepers when it was first posted.
I don't know whether the Lavender BC is real or not, but the hoaxer wasn't the source of it, from the analysis done here (somewhere in the 10,000+ comments):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306351/posts?q=1&;page=1