Memo Fachino and his husband, Lance Mier, have been proudly flying a Pride flag in front of their Wisconsin home for five years.
So when their neighborhood homeowners’ association enacted a new policy last month that barred residents from flying anything other than an American flag, Fachino responded by turning his entire home into one giant Pride flag.
On May 31, Fachino and Mier installed six floodlights — one for each color of the standard Pride flag — and pointed them toward the front of their brick home. “Simple representation and diversity is important to us,” Fachino told CNN. “We would like to see that in a neighborhood if we were looking to buy a house and were driving around.” Fachino, who sits on the board of his neighborhood