The Huntgton Beach cy uncil voted Tuday night 4-3 to lim flags that n be flown on cy property, excludg the rabow gay pri flag.
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- HUNTGTON BEACH TO LIM OFFICIAL DISPLAYS OF GAY PRI, OTHER NON-ERNMENTAL FLAGS
- HUNTGTON BEACH CY COUNCIL VOT NOT TO FLY GAY PRI FLAG AT CY HALL
HUNTGTON BEACH TO LIM OFFICIAL DISPLAYS OF GAY PRI, OTHER NON-ERNMENTAL FLAGS
(Spencer Grant) Huntgton Beach uld soon be flyg the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Pri flag for six weeks each year. (KABC) -- After a heated meetg, Huntgton Beach is tighteng s l on flag cy uncil voted Tuday night 4-3 to lim flags that n be flown on cy property, which clus the rabow gay pri new ordance will only allow the Amerin flag, the California state flag, the Huntgton Beach flag, the Orange County flag and the POW/MIA flag to be proposal was cricized by those who wanted the cy to ntue displayg the rabow flag durg LGBT pri month June. The flag will be raised at Cy Hall on May 22 each year — Harvey Milk Day — and stay up through the end of, the first openly gay person elected to California public office, was a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors prr to his assassatn 1978.
A Huntgton Beach Cy Council cisn over what flags to fly ont of cy ernment buildgs ma earlier this week received creased scty on Thursday wh more LGBT groups mandg that the rabow-striped gay pri flag be allowed to fly aga. The ntroversy dat back to 2021 when the Huntgton Beach Cy Council voted to allow the gay pri flag to fly durg the gay pri month of June. People are still allowed to fly the flags they want to, and after this, I expect a few more rints will brg out gay pri flags e June.
HUNTGTON BEACH CY COUNCIL VOT NOT TO FLY GAY PRI FLAG AT CY HALL
Orange County Fair officials received backlash for their cisn to raise an LGBTQ+ flag 2019 at the requt of former board member Andreas Meyer, who is gay. A California beach muny has reversed a cisn to fly the gay pri flag ont of ernment buildgs and will now only allow a select group of flags to be flown. In a 4-3 party le vote, the cy uncil Huntgton Beach, California voted to advance a proposal that would no longer allow the gay pri flag to be flown ont of ernment buildgs, KTLA 5 reported.
The move roughly two years after the cy uncil unanimoly voted 2021 to fly the gay pri flag ont of cy hall durg gay pri month. Several rints voiced opposn to the move at a cy uncil meetg on Tuday cludg former Huntgton Beach Mayor Connie Boardman, who said flyg the gay pri flag is a “small gture that regniz the value of our rints and visor who belong to the LGBTQ+ muny. Frank Rodriguez, who intified himself as an executive member of Gays Agast Groomers, said the Pri flag doen’t reprent him and ripped up durg his public ment perd.
Burns, who was the origal sponsor of the em got the last word on the uncil dais, sayg he brought forward wh a hope for uny, referencg that he had a nephew and niece who are gay and that he regnized them as equals and don’t treat them any differently. The issue stems om the Council's prev cisn to allow the rabow-striped gay pri flag to fly durg the gay pri months of June 2021 and 2022.