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June is Pride month, when many people and organizations show their support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community by flying the Pride flag.

To celebrate the beginning of Pride Month, the San Joaquin Pride Center hosted a community event Wednesday and raised the LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flag at Stockton City Hall.

Before the Progressive Pride flag was raised beside city hall Wednesday morning, Rachel Paterson reminded everyone that the two-spirit and LGBTQQIAP+ community…

Chilmark’s select board voted unanimously Tuesday night to limit flags flown on town flagpoles to federal, state, and town flags. The vote comes as other Vineyard towns have chosen to fly a particular flag, the Progressive Pride flag, following requests from local leaders from the LGBTQ community.  Select board chair Jim Malkin told his fellow […]

Officials in Qatar seized rainbow-coloured children’s toys – similar to LGBT+ flags – for bearing “slogans” contrary to “Islamic values”.

Following remarks from city leaders, the group cut a rainbow-colored ribbon to open the crosswalks to the public.

When you look at the number of hate-motivated actions perpetrated against P.E.I.'s queer community this summer, we have a problem. One that I can no longer ignore, writes Dave Stewart.

June 16th, 2021 by Featured Local residents advocated for months to get city approval. The City of National City raised a Pride flag over its City Hall during a ceremony held today. The modern version of the Pride flag, the Progressive Pride flag, was chosen by city officials to fly in honor of Pride Month. This was a historic first for National City as historically, areas of the county outside of central core neighborhoods like Hillcrest, were not known to be supportive of the LGBTQ community...

A local school board in Oregon is now attempting to mandate that every classroom have both a BLM flag (or poster) and a ‘Progressive Pride’ flag (or poster) to accompany the US flag: DAILY WIRE – An Oregon school board updated a policy to mandate that each classroom in the school district display a Black Lives Matter and “progressive pride” flag or poster. On May 6, the Gresham-Barlow School Board in Gresham, Oregon, updated the district’s “Flag Displays and Salutes” policy to ...

RNZ Gay, lesbian or bisexual people are twice as likely to suffer from sexual violence or family harm than the average New Zealander. Weenink Smith said the response to her Givealittle page, $1355 in under 24 hours, had been encouraging to see after reading the worst of the social media commentary. “There have been such horrible and hateful comments online, and really seeing the community come together has been wonderful,” she said. She said she had been talking with city councillors abo...