David Pendery’s rainbow pride flag had only been waving outside his house for a few days when a letter arrived ordering him to take it down.
Mr. Pendery, 44, a marketing executive, lives with his husband and their two children in Arapahoe County, Colo. When he hung up the flag at the end of August 2020, he hoped that the pennant would show solidarity for L.G.B.T.Q.
families like his. What he didn’t anticipate was a drawn-out legal battle, one that took him all the way to Denver Federal District Court in early March.
There are more than 370,000 homeowners associations across the country, collectively representing more than half of all owner-occupied U.S.