Salt Lake City adopts new flags to celebrate diversity and inclusion, including for Juneteenth, LGBTQIA, and transgender communities.

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise adopted new city flags this week showing support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures, which have banned traditional rainbow pride flags at schools and government buildings.

Utah banned LGBTQ flags from being displayed in public schools or government buildings. LGBTQ advocates called it “government overreach at its worst” and sa