Metro Weekly that he felt flying the Pride flag above the center of county government was the most meaningful event on the schedule. “When we raised the Pride flag four years ago, there was a lot of hate and anger not only in our community but across the country for the actions we were taking,” Glass says. “We continue to raise the Pride flag every year because we are not backing down to haters and bigots and homophobes.
We are here and we are members of this beautifully diverse community.” In 2019, there was controversy surrounding raising the Pride flag because it was temporarily flown in place of a veterans’ flag commemorating prisoners of war and people who went missing in action.
Although the problem was remedied the next day by adding extra ringlets to allow both flags to fly simultaneously, the one-day occurrence was trumpeted by conservative media outlets seeking to enrage their audiences over the alleged “snub” to veterans.
Despite the overhyped controversy, the first flag raising was considered a “significant milestone” for LGBTQ community visibility in Montgomery County.
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