When school board members in Newberg, Oregon, decided to ban all displays of LGBTQ Pride, Black Lives Matter and other signs with supposed “political” meaning, a couple living on a farm nearby decided it was up to them to stand up for and support the rights and identities of impacted minority groups.
Their idea? If the students in the school couldn’t display their own rainbow or BLM signs, they would build a massive wooden Pride flag on a hill on their property that overlooks the school to show that support instead.
The Advocate’s Trudy Ring reported that “Erin and Jaybill McCarthy, who have a farm near Newberg High School, posted on social media about their plans for the flag. Many people responded by donating funds for materials, and volunteers from all over the state joined the couple on Sunday [Aug. 15] to put the flag up.”
