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LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
The origal pri flag was created the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, iend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. If approved by the full Congrs, the bill uld force Stonewall Natnal Monument, an NPS se New York dited to tellg the story of the gay rights movement, to take down s Pri flags. It memorat the se of the rts at the Stonewall Inn that kicked off the morn gay rights movement on June 28, 1969.
As employe waved rabow flags, the drag queen — Wyn Wiley, gog by the name Pattie Gonia — joked that “gay people are lerally takg over the Natnal Park System. As the issue gas more polil tractn for gay rights opponents, the Human Rights Campaign rpond June by clarg s first “state of emergency. Dpe the plats om Republins on Capol Hill, gay rights advot have been urgg more natnal parks to jo the Pri celebratns.
The new battl e at a key time for the gay rights movement. While a rerd high 71 percent of Amerins last year said they believed gay and lbian relatns were morally acceptable, that fell to 64 percent this year Gallup’s most recent Valu and Beliefs poll released June. Last month, his mpaign released a vio that cricized former Print Donald Tmp for his earlier ments on gay rights and Pri Month, llg him “the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate .