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Gay pride flags to fly from St. Augustine's Bridge of Lions

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.�
[Date: 09-Jun-05 ]