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Two weeks ago the city council of Dublin, California voted 3-2 to reject a proposal to fly a pride flag over city hall during the month of June, Pride month. According to ABC, in response to the vote, Dublin Mayor David Haubert said: Issues were raised during the council meeting in May because residents felt if the rainbow flag were to be flown, so should other flags that identify residents of other subgroups. Residents who attended the meeting posed questions...

"We now understand that flying this flag—at this point in time, in particular—was at best tone-deaf, and at worst offensive." A popular sports bar in Washington, D.C., is embroiled in controversy after hoisting a “Blue Lives Matter” flag outside its facade. Last weekend, staff at Nellie’s Sports Bar wanted a group of LGBT police meeting at the bar to know it was “a welcoming space.” So they decided to raise a “Blue Lives Matter” flag. The tagline, a riff off of the...

Never has discrimination looked so beautiful. Sometimes a fashion statement says so much more than "I'm fierce." When Dutch designers Mattijs van Bergen and Oeri van Woezik joined forces for EuroPride, they knew they wanted to contribute something that spoke volumes. As visual artists, it was important for that message to be conveyed through the power of a single image. Or in this case, a single dress. The "Rainbow Dress" is 52-feet long, with a skirt made up of the flags from the...

A new Pride flag emoji could be making its way to your mobile devices pretty soon. BuzzFeed reports that Mark Davis of Google has submitted a formal proposal to the Unicode Consortium to have the Pride flag introduced as soon as possible. The Unicode Consortium, of which Davis is also a co-founder, oversees the introduction of new emojis. Davis said he was confident that the new emoji could be in place before the next emoji update. He said a change could use existing...