Thanks, riverman. No parade this year, they start planning early in the year and back then we didn't know if it was possible. Some smaller and remote events, but hopefully in 2022 we can have a million people celebrating in San Francisco again
What about state flags which usually fly right below the American flag?From Reddit: "Due to some neighbors flying BLM flags, Thin blue line flags, and other opinion flags, our HOA decided last month that we’re only allowed to fly the USA flag, and nothing else. They day after the decision, we receive an email that someone reported our Pride flag (that we had in our house since 2016), and that we needed to take it down. We complied and removed the flag. Looking through our new rules, we noticed that removable lights are permitted without restriction so... we bought 6 colored flood lights, and we washed our house in pride colors. A little less subtle than our simple flag. A lot more fun for anyone complaining about the flag itself and what it represents. If you’re interested, here’s the house now."
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Love them and encourage them and understand that your nephew is going through something far more difficult and stressful than you and your family. So, have some empathy. This isn't easy for a 14 year old. Showing any kind of disdain or disgust is a great way to lose them forever, or worse, they decide to end their life, which happens all too frequently. So I guess you have to decide do we accept this person for who they are so we can have them around, or show our opposition and quite literally lose them. Seems like a pretty easy call. I would offer therapy for whatever they are thinking and feeling and proactively do some research so it shows I was engaged and supportive, and could speak intelligently on the subject, and if I didn't know something would not pretend to know. But this is just what I would do.
I support pride month.
We watched Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil last night. We loved, LOVED Lady Chablis' performance!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Chablis
He's been playing gritty bad guy roles....he stopped being leading man material long ago...last movie I saw him in he played a serial killer but the role he played that I thought he was great in was his portrayal of Edgar Alan Poe....perfect casting job....his movies pretty much go straight to dvd these days...heard him interviewed on Marc Marons podcast recently....brilliant guy..stayed in Chicago and didn't do the Hollywood circuit much after he made it. .
