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Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the decision to fly the Progress Pride flag was made, in an effort to be more inclusive and highlight the diversity of the LGBTQI+ community.

The new Black Lives Matter flag stands next to a Progress Pride flag within view of Newberg High School.

A new Market Street Poster Series features professional artists and formerly unhoused residents in San Franciscos Tenderloin district to amplify neighborhood voices. The San Francisco Arts Commission invited artists to reconsider, respond to, and reimagine the idea of a public monument. In this second installment of the series, Skywatchers, a program of ABD Productions, expanded "The Opulence Project," using the highly visible posters to extend its mission of challenging the kinds of stories tr...

A Progress Pride flag - which event organizers say the city initially rejected this year. Photo: CC/DanielQuasar Organizers of a Pride celebration in Woonsocket are now planning a protest instead on Monday night, after they said Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli Hunt deliberately scheduled a conflicting event at the location.  Pride organizers said they tried to organize an event earlier in month for June 28 at River Island Park -- but were told by the city they could not use that location due t...

McQuaig soon discovered Rainbow Promise, now called Christ’s Promise, an Auburndale church whose congregation is predominantly LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning). Her late mother, Lois McQuaig, was not gay but left the Baptist church and attended Christ’s Promise until her death in 2008. “I felt welcome the minute I walked through the door, and my mother did, too,” said McQuaig, 65. “It’s just the weird way that God led me to a church where I felt lik...

This June, South San Francisco raised the Progress Pride flag.

The Progress Pride flag will fly throughout the weekend.

Stetson posted about the incident involving the flag on the store’s Facebook and Instagram pages after making a report with police. Shortly after the posts were made, members of the community stepped up and provided a new flag to Stetson for her business. Pride Month is celebrated annually, in June, in honor of the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Manhattan, a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Stetson is expecting more Progress Pride flags to be delivered over the ...

Wednesday June 23, 2021, 12:01 AM The new £50 note Credit: PA Wire/PA Images The Alan Turing £50 banknote has started to enter circulation, coinciding with the Bletchley Park codebreaker’s birthday. The new polymer Bank of England note will become available in bank branches and at ATMs in the coming days and weeks. Celebrating Mr Turing’s life, the Bank of England was also flying the Progress Pride flag above its building in London’s Threadneedle Street on Wednesday. Bank of England Gov...

The new £50 note featuring Alan Turing has entered circulation (Joe Giddens/PA) The Alan Turing £50 banknote has started to enter circulation, coinciding with the Bletchley Park codebreaker’s birthday. The new polymer Bank of England note will become available in bank branches and at ATMs in the coming days and weeks. Celebrating Mr Turing’s life, the Bank of England was also flying the Progress Pride flag above its building in London’s Threadneedle Street on Wednesday. Bank of England ...