LGBT activists used a drone to place a rainbow pride flag in the hands of a famous statue in the often anti-LGBTQ country of Ukraine. 

Pride celebrations happened virtually all over the U.S.; perhaps inspiring a 90-year-old man to come out of the closet for the first time while wondering about the love of his life from 50 years ago. 

Cities throughout the Bay Area raised the pride flag on official flag poles, but in San Ramon and Danville, the City Council’s voted to raise the Philadelphia version of the flag created in 2017 that includes a brown and black stripe representing LGBTQ communities of color.

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Last week’s historic landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ people in employment was surprising on many levels, not the least of which include the justices who both supported and wrote the decision for the court. 

In Tennessee, a deputy sheriff was fired from his job after a local source discovered racist and anti-LGBTQ posts on the deputy’s social media site. 

In Foster City, officials reversed course on their decision about flying the rainbow flag.

A virtual Sonoma County Pride celebration is set to take place this Saturday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case involving discrimination of same-sex couples seeking to adopt children from Catholic Social Services. Meanwhile, the Trump administration filed a brief defending the Catholic organization’s discriminatory practices under the guise of religious freedom. 

In Chicago, the mayor is vowing to fire a police officer who was caught on camera hurling profanity and anti-LGBT slurs at protesters.  

Kaiser Permanente researchers are reporting success with a new optional regimen involving the use of PrEP to present HIV infections and the results are truly promising.

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June 1st marked the beginning of Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the first pride march one year after the Stonewall Riots in New York.  Former vice-president Joe Biden issued a statement of unity with the LGBTQ+ community; this while President Trump was ordering the use of tear gas to combat protesters and despite his daughter, Ivanka, tweeting a short message of support.

Here in the Bay Area, the Foster City Council rejected community requests to fly the rainbow flag on the poles in front of City Hall. Meanwhile, cities all around them held ceremonies to raise the Pride flag. 

The McCarthy Library at Napa Valley College announced the first-ever virtual Pride Month exhibition now open and available online to the public.

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