{"id":151895,"date":"2026-03-29T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:27:08","slug":"cities-unite-for-transgender-day-flags-raised-in-solidarity-across-lehigh-valley-and-berks-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151895\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities unite for Transgender Day: Flags raised in solidarity across Lehigh Valley and Berks | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities in our area are showing their solidarity with the transgender community.<\/p>\n<p>In Reading, a flag was raised at City Park to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility, which is Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Pride teamed up with the city for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reading City Council were there.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Reading Pride said the day is more than just about raising a flag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also a call to action. When you see misinformation, when you see discrimination, it&#8217;s our responsibility as community members to stand up for the people that are being hurt by this,&#8221; Sean Flannery said, president of Reading Pride Celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A flag-raising ceremony was also held outside City Hall in Bethlehem Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first of three similar ceremonies being held this week in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two more on Tuesday in Allentown and Easton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cities in our area are showing their solidarity with the transgender community. In Reading, a flag was raised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,67392,33681,36853,61349,61350,27953,61353,8987,25713,25714],"class_list":{"0":"post-151895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-collective-identity","12":"tag-equality-rights","13":"tag-gender","14":"tag-gender-equality","15":"tag-human-gender-and-sexuality","16":"tag-human-rights","17":"tag-identity-politics","18":"tag-lgbtq","19":"tag-lgbtq-politics","20":"tag-lgbtq-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}