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PA Mayor Ridiculed For Canceling Pride Event • Instinct Magazine
Reading’s LGBTQ citizens started an impromptu Pride march after the mayor canceled their flag-raising just moments before the event. / Scrrenshot via YouTube @Berks Weekly
Reading, Pennsylvania citizens are complaining about their mayor after he halted the raising of a Pride flag in town.
This past Monday, citizens were preparing for the raising of a pride flag over City Hall for the first time in town history, but Mayor Wally Scott then suddenly changed his mind.
On the day of the flag’s...
Minutes before he was supposed to raise a pride flag at city hall, a...
A Pennsylvania mayor has come under fire for calling the rainbow flag a political symbol.
Wally Scott is the mayor of Reading, a city of around 90,000. On Monday, the rainbow flag was supposed to be raised in front of Reading’s City Hall to start the city’s week-long Pride festivities.
But, at the last minute, Scott called City Council president Jeffrey Waltman to ban the flag from flying in front of City Hall. Waltman tried to convince him to reconsider, but...
