Good morning. Across much of California, you might not blink at a Pride flag flying outside a home, business or civic building.
A proclamation honoring Pride Month by elected officials? Usually not breaking news. But there are places in the state where the raising of the rainbow flag has become, like so many things, a source of partisan political conflict.
That surprised Jewel Hurtado, a 22-year-old City Council member in the Fresno County hamlet of Kingsburg, who in May proposed that the city recognize Pride Month with a proclamation and by flying the flag. “My story isn’t any different from anyone else’s in the Central Valley — that’s why I brought this Pride proclamation to the table,” Hurtado, who identifies as bisexual, told me.