Thank you Vice Mayor Arun Goel for suggesting that we do that, which proved to be particularly poignant this year." That is why I'm proud that we are raising the Philly Pride Flag this year. In a Facebook post close to midnight June 2, gay Dublin City Councilman Shawn Kumagai pointed out "the intersectional nature of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation in the fight for equal protection under the law. In mid-May the city council had agreed to fly the Philly Pride flag at the suggestion of Vice Mayor Arun Goel in "consideration of additional inclusivity." It was in stark contrast from last year, when he was one of three council members to vote at first against flying the rainbow flag to then change their minds after causing a heated backlash. It had initially raised the other version of the rainbow flag on June 1 and then swapped the flags when the newer one arrived. The first city to hoist the Philly Pride flag in the Tri-Valley area of the East Bay was Dublin, which did so June 2.
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"These local governments took a stand, met a challenging topic straight on, and chose to do what was right," noted the PFLAG Danville/San Ramon Valley chapter on its Facebook page with photos of the flags in both cities. Its city council voted Tuesday to fly it in the Danville Town Green, where it was hoisted Wednesday morning though it wasn't until Thursday afternoon that local LGBT advocates learned it had been raised. "Because Black Lives Matter is such a hot topic right now as well, it just made sense to include everybody in this."Īfter initially ignoring requests earlier in June that it also fly the Philly flag when it issued its Pride Month proclamation, the neighboring town of Danville also raised the flag this week. "Part of it is as a collective Tri-Valley, let's be inclusive," said Zafar, referring to the area of the East Bay that also includes Livermore, which is also flying the rainbow flag. San Ramon is flying the Philly Pride flag at the urging of hundreds of residents in recent weeks who drew inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement and nationwide protests against police brutality. Dublin is flying the Philly version of the Pride flag, which went up June 2. San Ramon Vice Mayor Sabina Zafar told the Bay Area Reporter she has been pushing her city to fly a Pride flag since seeing the neighboring town of Dublin do so for the first time last year.
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It includes black and brown stripes at the top of the flag in addition to the standard six colors of the rainbow.
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According to Philadelphia magazine, the marketing firm Tierney created that version of the flag in June 2017 for the city of Philadelphia. On Thursday, the city of San Ramon hoisted the Philadelphia version of the Pride flag at its City Hall following its City Council voting 5-0 at a special meeting June 17 to raise that variation of the rainbow flag as it fine tunes having a flag policy in place. With several cities in California flying more diverse versions of the rainbow flag, LGBTQ advocates in San Francisco are seeking to see the Castro business district follow suit and raise one of the flags on the giant flagpole that stands over the LGBT neighborhood.