{"id":251675,"date":"2026-06-02T01:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251675\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:23:15","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-stratford-holds-flag-raising-at-town-hall-to-kick-off-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251675\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Stratford Holds Flag Raising At Town Hall To Kick Off Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stratford kicked off Pride Month with a flag\u2011raising ceremony at Town Hall Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The ceremony brought together residents, advocates and elected leaders to recognize the contributions of Stratford&#8217;s LGBTQIA+ community.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor David Chess issued a proclamation saying that every resident deserves to be respected, valued and embraced for who they are \u2014 regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Community leaders say it&#8217;s important to have pride all year around.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It makes people visible, it gives us pride, us in the gay community. I&#8217;ve been out so long I forget I&#8217;m gay. But it&#8217;s important to be reminded because then some young person who doesn&#8217;t have the courage yet will go, \u2018Wait a minute. I can do this. If that old gal can do it. I can do this,\u2019&#8221; said Rev. Sara Smith, with United Congregational Church of Bridgeport.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is Stratford&#8217;s eighth year flying the Pride flag during the month of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stratford kicked off Pride Month with a flag\u2011raising ceremony at Town Hall Monday morning. The ceremony brought together&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-251675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}