Mayor Erin Mendenhall and members of the Salt Lake City Council helped raise the LGBTQ Pride flag at city hall, kicking off the annual Utah Pride Festival.
"It's so big and people see it, they'll want to come down here and feel the love," Tanya Hawkins, the co-CEO of the Utah Pride Center, said as she looked up at the flag.
Mayor Mendenhall was being honored by the Utah Pride Center this year for her work as an ally of the LGBTQ community. The governor has been criticized by some in the LGBTQ community for signing a bill the legislature passed earlier this year, imposing a moratorium on health care for transgender youth. He was praised a year ago by LGBTQ rights activists for vetoing a bill banning transgender children from playing school sports matching their gender identity .
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