Gay pride flags to fly from St. Augustine's Bridge of Lions
For the next six days, 49 rainbow flags will fly on the Bridge of Lions after a three-year battle by gay rights organizations in St. Augustine, Florida. U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. ruled against the city in a lawsuit filed by the St. Augustine Pride Committee, Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The city had rejected a request to fly the flags during gay pride week. A committee member was told by city officials that the bridge was reserved for groups of historical significance. So the pride committee said the flags would commemorate the 1566 murder of a gay man in the St. Augustine area. The flags go up today.
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