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WCVB.Scammell also reportedly made “disparaging statements regarding the Jewish faith” in his voicemail, according to police. “The Hingham Police Department supports and stand with our LGBTQ+ and Jewish communities and we will not tolerate any threats or discrimination against them,” Hingham Police Chief David Jones said in a statement. “The men and women of this agency will vigorously investigate threats against any member of our community.”Jones added: “Hingham is a welcoming and accepting community and we will continue to work with our local stakeholders to ensure that our town is safe and inclusive for everyone.”Massachusetts Gov.

county election results. Moving forward, any flag representing a political or social cause, such as breast cancer awareness, a specific religion, or a specific community — such as the LGBTQ community — will not be permitted to fly on city-owned flagpoles.There are exemptions for city, county, and state flags, the U.S.

MOCO 360, on Thursday, Nov. 7, at around 9:35 p.m., a security camera captured an unidentified suspect in the act of vandalism.Video shows the person tearing and pulling down part of a two-story-tall Pride banner hanging from the exterior of Bethesda United Methodist Church, located on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda.The vandalism was first discovered by Dennis Williams, the children’s minister for the church, who identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community, as he was leaving the church last Thursday.“It was like a punch in the stomach,” Williams said of the destruction of the banner, which was installed back in June in recognition of LGBTQ Pride Month.

KHQ-TV.The bystander, a neighborhood resident, reportedly interrupted the action on the night in question.The incidents come after the Pride mural in front of the LGBTQ youth center was defaced back in September — actions that appear to indicate that the Odyssey Youth Movement was deliberately targeted. “The fact that this has happened, now, three nights in a row, and the fact that this happened a month after the initial vandalism as well, this is a pattern, this is a repeat, which is very intimidating, to say the least, and terrifying, to say the most,” Ian Sullivan, the executive director of Odyssey Youth Movement, told KHQ.Sullivan added that the acts appear “designed to make LGBTQ+ youth and young adults feel unwelcome and othered in their own community.”“We’re all saddened to hear that someone continues to vandalize the new rainbow crosswalk and Odyssey Youth facility,” Michelle Weaver, the South Perry Neighborhood and Business Association president, said in a statement.

On Thursday, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off Pride month in Washington, D.C. by raising an LGBTQ Pride flag above the John A.

Huntington Beach banned flying the Pride flag at City Hall during a sometimes heated City Council meeting earlier this week. It’s an abrupt about face from 2021 when the City Council voted 6-0 to hoist the Pride flag for six weeks to coincide with LGBTQ Pride Month in June. Photo: City of Huntington Beach

The Voice of OC.“We, the City of Huntington Beach, are one community with many different cultures and people. All are equally valued members of our community, and none are to be treated differently or discriminated against,” Burns wrote in a memo explaining his proposal.

KSBW. “It can be so infuriating and really scary all at the same time.”Some of the speakers at the flag-raising said it was important to show that members of the college community aren’t afraid of the vandals and will stand strong together.“Very frankly, I was told, ‘Oh, Steve, you’re not going to run openly gay are you? You haven’t been here long enough. You’re not going to get elected.’ Well, guess what? I’m here,” Cabrillo College trustee Steve Trujillo said.

The Power of Positive Leadership, actions that Thomas and her lawyers claim were taken to force her to quit and leave the school system. “This was a newly formed position created especially for this situation,” Thomas told the Minnesota Reformer in an interview. “From what I can tell, it’s never existed prior to this.

The Power of Positive Leadership, actions that Thomas and her lawyers claim were taken to force her to quit and leave the school system. “This was a newly formed position created especially for this situation,” Thomas told the Minnesota Reformer in an interview. “From what I can tell, it’s never existed prior to this.

Jacksonville Journal-Courier.It is unclear whether the act is being considered a hate crime, meaning the student could face bias enhancements, or additional penalties for targeting the victim because of their real or perceived sexual orientation.Superintendent Kyle Hacke would only confirm that an assault took place on “red, white and blue day,” but declined to go into further detail.But a number of students at the school seem to side with the student who was arrested and detained, choosing to

CBS affiliate WPEC.A witness captured video of Jerich’s car swerving through the intersection and repeatedly using its tires to mark up the painting. That video later went viral.When he was initially arrested, the Delray Beach Police Department added a hate crime enhancement to the charge of criminal mischief, for allegedly targeting the LGBTQ community.

Both British and American embassies in the United Arab Emirates are receiving backlash online from conservative Emiratis after raising the rainbow Pride flag alongside their own national flags in celebration of Pride Month in June.The UAE still criminalises same-sex relationships.

news release from the Boone Police Department.In four separate criminal complaints, police allege that Geddes — whose picture was captured by a Ring Doorbell camera and used to identify him — “entered upon the property of the victim without the permission of the owner(s) and with the intent to commit a hate crime.” He then allegedly left handwritten notes taped to the doors of homes with Pride flags, rainbow-colored doormats, or other displays that have typically been associated with support for

Created 43 years ago, the rainbow flag is the most widely recognized symbol of LGBTQ community around the world.

tweeted, showing photos of the incident and sharing a video from his brother’s TikTok account which documented the interaction. “Then, their boat literally blew up! #KarmaIsReal.”Video of the event pic.twitter.com/JYLqulzqea—

The Leader.Police on Bainbridge Island say they were called to the church in July, after employees of Island Time Activities, a nonprofit that works with people with developmental disabilities which leases space at the church for its program, said they saw a man take down the pride flag and tell one of the workers not to put it back upbefore driving off in a car.

assaulting a gay man in June, allegedly because he was angered at an LGBTQ Pride flag flying outside the victim’s home.Michael Lee Cates, 34, of Brockton, was charged with assault and battery with serious bodily injury, and assault and battery with intent to intimidate, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.Cates was identified through his license plate, which the victim remembered and reported to police on the day of the attack.

Boston 25 News.Anderson claims the man swore at him, called him a slur, and punched him in the face. He then returned to his car and sped off.“I saw the guy just come up and yell those nasty words at my husband and then hit him two or three times and then took off back into his car and screeched away,” Jacob Anderson says.

Pride flag flying outside the Montgomery County Executive Office Building – Photo: Evan Glass, via Facebook.