NEW YORK — A vandal riding a CitiBike carrying a LGBTQ rainbow flag is being sought for vandalizing three Queens churches in a 20-minute span, spray-painting graffiti calling them “anti-gay cults,” police said Wednesday.

Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect, who wore sunglasses and a rainbow handkerchief that covered his nose and mouth, and asked the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down.

The vandal hit the three churches, which are all within a few blocks of each other in Far Rockaway, in quick succession beginning at 1:40 a.m. on Oct. 5, cops said.

The spree began at the Refuge Church of Christ on Mott Ave. near Beach 19th St., where he wrote “Anti-gay cult” in black spray-paint on the sidewalk outside the house of worship, cops said.

He then rolled on to the City of Oasis Church of Deliverance just a half block away from the Refuge Church of Christ, where he scrawled “Anti-gay cult” on the front door, along with LGBTQ symbols, cops said.

He then pedaled away on the CitiBike to St. Mary’s Star of the Sea three blocks away on New Haven Ave. near Beach 20th St., where he blackened out the face of a statue of the Virgin Mary and wrote “Cult” on the statue’s base. He also spray-painted the face of another statue and wrote “Welcome cult members” on the sidewalk.

The pastor of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea discovered the vandalism the next morning, according to the Tablet.

A receptionist for St. Mary’s Star of the Sea and St. Gertrude’s, which is nearby and share the same rectory, told the Daily News in early October that both churches had been vandalized, with someone placing plastic bags over the heads of the statues at both churches.

St. Mary’s Star of the Sea was the only Catholic church vandalized on October 5. The Refuge Church of Christ is an Apostolic church and the City of Oasis Church of Deliverance is Pentecostal.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

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—With Rocco Parascandola

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