Rainbow Flag

LONG ISLAND CITY -- A debate over display of the rainbow "pride" flag has broken out at a Long Island City college. [ Read more → ]

EDMONTON, Alberta -- In a ceremony attended by senior military officers and civilian members of the LGBT community, the rainbow pride flag was raised at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, and will remain this week to coincide with Edmonton's LGBT Pride Festival. [ Read more → ]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA -- The city of West Hollywood has announced that it make permanent the temporary rainbow crosswalks installed back in June in honor of gay pride month. [ Read more → ]

Speaking at Glenn Beck’s Under God Indivisible Conference, anti-gay Bishop Harry Jackson unleashed a screed against marriage equality and called upon Christians to unite against gay rights in a new ‘rainbow coalition,’ saying that religious leaders must “steal back the rainbow. [ Read more → ]

On a March day last year, Richard Noble decided it was high time to take a walk; after 15 months and 2,700 miles, he became the first man to walk across America with the rainbow pride flag. Noble and the rainbow pride flag left San Francisco with hopes of spreading what he calls “the dream.” [ Read more → ]

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- LGBT employees and allies at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., celebrated this year's Pride with a rainbow flag raised at the factory on Sunday. [ Read more → ]

The gloves are off and the masks have been removed in the United States as apparently it has become acceptable, even fashionable, to bully your fellow citizens -- or better still, hang an effigy of your president, who happens to be black, with a noose, and in a part of the country where not too long ago, that in of itself was quietly approved. [ Read more → ]

SAN DIEGO -- Very soon, San Diego's LGBT community will see a colorful symbol of their pride flying high above the Hillcrest neighborhood. On Tuesday, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve a proposal by the Hillcrest Business Association. [ Read more → ]

Scott Lively delivered an hour long speech recently entitled "The Global Threat of Homosexuality" at Resurrection Life of Jesus church in Sacramento and it was, as you can imagine, chock full of all sorts of anti-gay lunacy as Lively sought to make clear that homosexuality is not a sin just like any other sin, but rather a warning sign that our society is on the verge of collapse. [ Read more → ]

Millions of Americans will dress in purple on Thursday -- both in person and online -- to mark the second annual Spirit Day, a day demonstrate support for LGBT youth and to speak out against bullying. [ Read more → ]

The North Wales Police Department on Friday said that it will be reinforcing its commitment to equality and diversity by displaying rainbow flag stickers at police front counters across its jurisdiction to encourage LGBTQ people to report anti-gay bias-based crimes. [ Read more → ]

The decision of the Federal Reserve Bank of Virginia on Wednesday to fly a gay pride flag in honor of LGBT pride month, has drawn criticism from conservative groups, and at least one state lawmaker who said flying the flag is a crime. [ Read more → ]

Community activists in San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro neighborhood are outraged by a recent statement by the Mission Delores Neighborhood Association calling for removal of the Rainbow flags that are hung from the light posts in the Castro. [ Read more → ]