(Photos courtesy of Randy Downs) At the request of gay Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Randy Downs, city. The flag represents a symbol of pride in the LGBT community. President Donald Trump has also joked that Pence "wants to hang" all gay people, according to The New Yorker. Sixteen Pride flags and six trans flags will be hung on 17th Street. Some neighbors have put up rainbow flags since the Indiana governor moved in to protest what they call his anti-gay policy positions.
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Pence also criticized efforts to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the federal policy banning openly gay Americans from serving in the military. The former Indiana governor is currently living in a temporary residence in DC's Chevy Chase neighborhood before he moves into the official VP pad at the US Naval Observatory. But Democrats, along with traditionally right-leaning business organizations, rallied against the change.īack in 2010, then-Rep. Mike Pence's DC neighbors are trolling him with gay pride flags, ABC 7 reports. Pence is a Christian conservative who, as governor of Indiana, attempted to amend the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriages in 2014. Pence arrived in Aspen on Tuesday according to the report. He continued: "They've been really nice to us." neighborhood where Vice President-elect Mike Pence has recently rented a house is being decked out with at least six gay pride flags, a. Several houses on Pence’s block in Washington’s Chevy Chase neighborhood have put up rainbow pride flags since the vice president-elect. The Chevy Chase neighborhood where Vice President-elect Mike Pence has recently rented a house is being decked out.
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"When they said, 'We're not here to control your free speech rights,' they came out with chili and began feeding them." The new neighbors of Indiana Governor Mike Pence are welcoming the vice president-elect to their Northwest Washington neighborhood with special decorations dedicated specifically to him: gay pride flags. Pences future Washington neighbors are hanging up gay pride flags from their homes to let the notoriously homophobic politician know where they stand on LGBT equality, according to a report by. "He was real sheepish and thought he might be confronted by the Secret Service or deputies who'd tell him he couldn't do it," DiSalvo said. Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said when a man who lives in the home hung the banner, the Secret Service didn't stop him. The neighbors posted the words, which were written on a rainbow flag, on a stone pillar that sits at the end of the driveways to both homes, Pitkin County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Buglione told The Aspen Times. More residents may hang flags President Mike Pence's neighbors hung a 'Make America Gay Again' banner outside his Aspen-area residence, according to a report published Friday. Residents on NW Washington Street where VP Elect Pence is renting a house are sending him a symbolic message. “This is one way that I can show my disagreement,” said Heintzen. There are roughly a half-dozen pride flags hanging on the block, and more are on the way, reports WJLA. #Pride flags sending message to outside temporary #DC home.
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Neighbors started hanging the pride flags after the VP-Elect moved in because the LGBTQ community has criticized Pence’s policies regarding LGBTQ rights.
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Pence moved into a house on Heintzen’s block where he will stay on-and-off until he moves into the Vice-President’s mansion on the grounds of the Naval Observatory next year. The ‘he’ Heintzen is referring to is Vice-President Elect Mike Pence. “A respectful message showing, in my case, my disagreement with some of his thinking,” said Ilse Heintzen.