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The vandalized flags hanging from Wicker Park Lutheran Church (image via WGN screenshot)It seems like vandalizing pride flags has become a pastime for haters. The most recent instance happened this last Sunday near 3 a.m. when a vandal was caught on camera jumping a fence at Wicker Park Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois to spray paint two flags hanging outside the church. The vandal spray-painted a black “X” on the transgender flag and “We love kids” on the Pride flag,...

Vice President Mike Pence, best known for his nonstop attacks on the LGBTQ community in the name of “religious freedom,” is defending the administration’s decision to stop allowing American embassies to fly the Pride flag in June. While foreign outposts are defying Trump and finding ways to circumvent the guidance, Pence attempted to spin the rebellion as a way the administration is “serving” the LGBTQ community. In an interview with NBC News, Pence confirmed reports that the feds were denying embassies’...

President Donald Trump’s tweet “honoring” Pride Month came on the heels of more attacks on the LGBTQ community and was met with immediate scorn. As if to put a finer point on it, days later the administration announced that despite’s Trump’s tweet, they would not allow embassies to fly the Pride flag as ambassadors have done for years. Trump’s state department has rejected at least four requests from embassies to fly the rainbow flag during Pride month: Brazil, Germany, Israel...

Despite Donald Trump’s cynical Pride month announcement last week, his actions continue to show that he doesn’t actually support LGBTQ pride, visibility or change on any scale. NBC News reports that Trump’s state department has forbidden at least four requests from U.S. embassies around the world to fly the rainbow flag during Pride month. These embassies include Brazil, Germany, Israel and Latvia. Obama had approved similar requests in the past. “Although the pride flag can and is being flown elsewhere on...

New York police have launched an investigation to a possible hate crime after two Pride flags were burned outside a Harlem bar. Police responded to a call outside the Alibi Lounge on West 139th street late Friday night. Unknown vandals had set the flags aflame, though by the time police arrived, rainfall had extinguished the fire. Investigators are now trying to determine if the incident should be classified as a hate crime. The news reached New York governor Andrew Cuomo the...