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Salt Lake City and Boise have adopted new official flags following a ban of non-sanctioned flags in Utah and Idaho.
City leaders in Boise and Salt Lake City found a workaround to recent state laws that effectively banned pride flags from government property.
its existing flag, as well as modified versions of the Progress Pride, Transgender Pride and Juneteenth flags – each including the city's signature sego lily. They were presented by Mayor Erin ...
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Two progressive U.S. cities in red states found a new way around state laws banning Pride and Juneteenth flags from being ...
Salt Lake City unveiled a series of flags on Tuesday that appear to circumvent a new state law banning "non-sanctioned" flags ...
Contestants at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest won’t be allowed to display Pride flags onstage or during official events per new policy guidance. A politically charged finale also saw ...
Mayor Erin Mendenhall presented the flags Tuesday evening. The new law passed by the state lawmakers in the 2025 legislative session goes into effect Wednesday. Bill to keep Pride flags from ...
Hours before a statewide ban on pride and other unsanctioned flags in ... The move to designate three new flags as official — in addition to its standard one, adopted in 2020 — came the ...
Salt Lake City’s adoption of three new official flags — incorporating pride, transgender and Juneteenth symbols — may fly in the face of the Utah Legislature’s ban, but it prompts the ...
City leaders in Boise and Salt Lake City on Tuesday, May 6 introduced new official flags to support LGBTQ+ rights, sidestepping laws in both states that prohibit the display of pride flags and ...