{"id":207155,"date":"2026-05-31T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207155\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:46:08","slug":"pride-flag-raising-takes-place-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207155\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride flag raising takes place in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Pride Month kicks off, Scranton&#8217;s 8th annual Pride flag-raising attracts its largest crowd yet, featuring community speakers, live entertainment and more.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 As Pride Month approaches, the 8th annual Pride flag-raising event in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> got underway on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials and city leaders gathered as community members shared their stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Children could enjoy making chalk art while singers and poets took a step to perform on the stairs of city hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say it was the biggest turnout they&#8217;ve had yet to kick off Pride Month in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt powerful. It was important to be here. To be visible, and I know it&#8217;s scary times right now, but that visibility matters especially when you have city officials here and elects here to see who we are,&#8221; said Olivia Butkiewicz, the board chair of Queer NEPA.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say this is just the beginning, as countless pride events are scheduled throughout the month all over Northeast Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Pride Month kicks off, Scranton&#8217;s 8th annual Pride flag-raising attracts its largest crowd yet, featuring community speakers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-207155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207155","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=207155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}