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Mary McNamara: LA vandals are targeting Pride flags. And it's not having the effect they hoped for

LOS ANGELES -- Whoever is stealing the Pride flags from the Shakespeare Bridge might want to reconsider their motives. They're hard to miss, those flags. Attached by wire to four of the bridge's towers, they flap and flutter in the breeze, brilliant banners rendered almost medieval by the Gothic-style architecture, startling and resilient in the gloom of this year's spring and early summer. ...
Shakespeare Bridge in Los Feliz on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.

LOS ANGELES -- Whoever is stealing the Pride flags from the Shakespeare Bridge might want to reconsider their motives.

They're hard to miss, those flags. Attached by wire to four of the bridge's towers, they flap and flutter in the breeze, brilliant banners rendered almost medieval by the Gothic-style architecture, startling and resilient in the gloom of this year's spring and early summer.

Almost three weeks since the Franklin Hills Residents Association hung them, the flags seem almost brand new. Because they are. They first went up on May 27, in preparation for Pride month, and almost every other day since, someone has torn them down, sometimes shredding them in the process, sometimes

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