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MARYLAND COUNTY REPLAC POW/MIA FLAG WH GAY PRI FLAG
Patrick Wojahn, the gay former mayor of College Park, Md., plead guilty Prce Gee’s County Circu Court on Wednday, Aug. ""The pri flags that are beg forced upon teachers do not solely reprent the gay muny. But this year’s annual celebratn of the LGBTQ+ muny has been marred by what n only be scribed as anti-gay attacks.
From the banng of gay pri flags certa classrooms to the burng of them Baltimore streets, would be easy to be disuraged and believe that the progrs ma sce the Stonewall rts of 1969, or even the U. The flags were paid for by the Wtmster chapter of the nonprof PFLAG, which stands for Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays.
Origal pri flag — June 1978The first rabow pri flag was signed Gilbert Barker and unveiled durg the San Francis Gay Freedom Day on June 25, 1978. Philly Mag reported that a source volved wh the event said, “The black and brown strip are an clnary way to highlight Black and brown LGBTQIA members wh our muny.”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny,” the statement ntued. Acrdg to TriPri, the flag is meant to reprent the QPOC muny, pecially as relat to the ti that have bound the Black and queer muni sce the ceptn of the gay liberatn movement.