Let Pride fly the rainbow flag at City Hall on parade day
KAMLOOPS — There’s a difference between setting a precedent and making a one-time exception. And for just about every rule, there’s at least one exception.
One of the City’s rules is that flying other people’s flags in front of City Hall is reserved for visiting delegations. It’s not a bad rule; back in the day, any group that asked was allowed to have its flag flown on the City flagpole. There would be a little ceremony on the front steps with a few representatives, and the mayor — or a councillor, depending on who was available — would ceremonially tug at the lanyard and up the flag would go for a day or a week.
The media would sometimes attend and snap a photo for the community page. It got to be a bit much, with all the worthy events and flag requests.
But council could have made an exception for the upcoming Pride Parade, which will march through downtown next month, and it would have looked good on them. After several successful marches through the TRU campus in the past, this is the first year the city’s LGBTQ community will parade downtown.