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New Law Forces Boise Mayor to Take Down Pride Flag From City Hall

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, everybody! First, we had the 8-1 Supreme Court decision striking down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. Now, we have the mayor of Boise, Idaho, being forced to take down the Pride flag from city hall.

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Bay in May of 2025, the Boise City Council voted to make the Pride Flag an "official city flag.” Someone overlay "Taps" playing on this video, OK?

"It's not political. It's not ideological." Yeah, not at all. It is religious to you nuts.

KTVB reports:

The City of Boise has taken down its Pride flag at City Hall after Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 561 into law on Tuesday morning. 

The new legislation prohibits certain public displays, including Pride flags, to be displayed on government property. Little signed it at 11:44 a.m., and the city removed its display shortly after.

Boise Mayor Lauren McLean announced in a statement on Tuesday that while the city must comply with the new law, Boise's core values remain unchanged. 

"Today, Governor Little signed HB 561 into law—a bill written with one purpose in mind: to prevent Boise from expressing our values by flying our official Pride flag, something we have done with the support of our community for more than a decade," she wrote.

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Drama queen.

We wondered the same thing. Naked gay men ride unicycles in parades wearing the flag as a cape.

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It's not religious, she says, before breaking into a hymn while it's taken down.

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