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From YouTube: Flag Raising to Commemorate Pride Month 2022
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The City of Bellevue is live streaming the initial raising of the Pride Flag in celebration of Pride Month during the month of June. The live event is noon-1 p.m. June 1 and will feature remarks from city leaders, participation by community partners and a formal flag raising ceremony with color guard. The event will be recorded for later playback.
A
A
I
would
also
like
to
thank
our
city
staff
and
community
partners
who
are
here
with
us.
They
are
key
pieces
of
supporting
our
community
members
and
bellevue
and
in
our
region.
We
also
are
grateful
to
have
city
leaders
here
today,
including
fire
chief
jay
hagen
and
police
chief
wendell
shirley.
Would
you
two
guys
step
out?
Please.
A
A
We
are
pleased
to
have
several
leaders
here
today
joining
us.
We
have
our
own
mayor,
mayor,
lynn,
robinson
and
also,
and
first
of
all,
a
little
bit
about
lynn,
robinson
lynn
has
spent
most
of
her
life
dedicated
to
champion
equity
and
strong
leadership
for
everyone,
and
for
that
we
appreciate
you
as
our
mayor.
So
thank
you
very
much
at
this
time.
I
would
like
to
introdu
invite
lin
mayor
lynn
robinson
to
come
up.
Thank
you
mayor,
thank.
B
B
You
know
we're
just
thrilled
to
be
here
today
in
celebration
of
pride
month,
and
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
coming
out,
and
I
say
that
intentionally
because,
even
though
eight
percent
of
our
community
identifies
publicly
as
part
of
the
lgbtq
plus
community,
a
lot
of
people
are
afraid
to
come
out
in
public.
So
thank
you
for
being
here.
B
Bellevue
embraces
and
celebrates
diversity,
but
we
know
that
nationally
there
are
vast
cl
social,
cultural
and
legal
inequities.
I'm
proud
of
bellevue's
diversity
advantage
initiative,
which
is
committed
to
creating
a
welcoming,
inclusive
and
equitable
environment
for
all
lgbtq
plus
individuals
who
live
work
and
play
in
bellevue.
B
Yet
I'm
reminded
that
for
many
of
those
community
members
they
face
disproportionate
instances
of
violence,
hate
discrimination,
homelessness
and
mental
health
struggles.
I
celebrated
with
bellevue
college
last
week
as
we
did
the
ribbon
cutting
for
a
new
rainbow
crosswalk.
It
took
five
years
to
go
from
chalk
to
pavement
and
last
and
last
month
in
arlington
virginia
our
bellevue
downtown
associations.
B
B
B
A
A
Once
again,
I
would
like
to
give
a
heartfelt
thank
you
to
our
mayor
mayor
robinson.
We
truly
appreciate
your
dedication
and
your
commitment
to
the
city
of
bellevue.
You
make
bellevue
a
place
where
people
are
happy
to
say
that
they
live
in
this
city
and
it's
a
place
where
people
would
like
to
visit.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
your
leadership
and
at
this
time
I
would
like
to
introduce
our
own
city
manager,
not
anyone
else's
our
city
manager.
A
I
would
like
to
introduce
to
you
brad
miyaki
brad
is
the
city
manager
for
the
city
of
bellevue
and,
as
the
mayor
just
stated,
he
has
been
a
person
who
has
championed
the
whole
flag
raising
for
many
years
and
not
just
the
raising
of
the
flag,
but
for
the
body
of
people.
He
recognized
the
people
for
whom
they
are
people
who
are
here
to
commit
and
be
a
part
of
making
bellevue
strong.
So
with
that,
I
would
like
to
introduce
our
own
city
manager.
C
So,
thank
you,
everybody
and
thank
you
for
being
here
today.
This
is
a
really
important
celebration
in
terms
of
today.
What
we're
going
to
do
here.
It
has
become
a
tradition
for
the
city
of
bellevue
to
to
raise
the
flag
and
do
this
in
partnership
with
the
lgbtq
plus
community,
to
celebrate
diversity
and
equity
within
the
city.
C
What
you
will
see
are,
in
addition
to
the
regular
colors
brown
and
black,
which
represents
our
lgbtq
plus
communities
of
color
it'll,
also
include.
I
have
to
look
at
this.
I
believe
this
blue,
pink
and
white
stripes
to
represent
our
transgender
community
here
as
well.
This
design
was
was
created
back
in
2018
to
represent
more
of
the
times
that
we
live
in
right
now,
and
it
is
our
new
pride
flag
and
so
you're
going
to
see
that
in
a
few
moments.
C
A
Thank
you,
city
manager,
miyaki.
You
know,
our
city
is
very
fortunate
to
also
have
brad,
as
our
city
manager.
Brad
is
a
true
champion
for
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
and
for
that
we
appreciate
him
greatly,
because
it's
not
just
the
body
of
work
for
him.
It
is
his
true
mission
in
life
to
make
certain
that
all
are
being
served
and
served
properly
equally
and
all
is
included.
So
thank
you
again.
We
appreciate
you
greatly
well,
it
is
my
pleasure
at
this
time
to
introduce
a
community
member.
A
A
D
I
I've
never
used
one
of
these
before
so
I
I
tend
to
really
project,
and
I
I
apologize
to
everybody
on
youtube.
Who's
hearing
me
really
loudly
right
now,
dear
honorable
mayor
robinson
and
distinguished
council
members
city
manager,
miyaki
chief
shirley
and
hagan
to
all
of
the
staff
here
at
the
city
of
bellevue
and
to
the
residents
of
bellevue.
D
That
is
incredible
and
I'm
very
grateful
to
be
here.
Never,
first
of
all,
never
did.
I
think
that
I
would
be
living
in
the
same
city.
I
grew
up
in
I've,
lived
all
over
the
world
and
never
realized.
I
would
come
back
here
and
I
never
thought
that
I
would
be
asked
to
help
raise
a
pride
flag
as
the
representative
of
this
very
diverse
city
and
it's
really
a
huge
honor
and
I'm
again
grateful.
D
So
I
grew
up
in
bellevue
in
the
80s
and
90s
and
as
more
indians
moved
in.
Thank
you,
microsoft.
We
appreciated
that
the
city
was
changing
to
look
more
and
more
like
us.
As
I
got
older,
though
I
changed
in
a
way
that
was
not
reflected
on
the
east
side.
A
piece
of
my
identity
and
important
one
stayed
a
secret
from
my
closest
friends
and
definitely
from
my
family.
D
I
grew
up
in
a
bubble
with
expectations
defined
by
my
immigrant
community
and
in
some
senses
by
the
city
in
which
I
lived
without
visible,
accessible
support
for
a
brown
kid
like
me
here,
I
felt
trapped
looking
longingly
at
the
progressive
city
across
the
lake
for
a
place
that
could
possibly
accept
the
side
of
me.
I
worked
so
hard
to
hide.
D
D
We
have
partners,
spouses,
children
for
babies,
families
seeing
a
gay
couple,
walk
down
the
street
hand
in
hand,
has
less
power
to
be
either
disgusting
or,
oh,
so
cute.
It's
actually
pretty
unremarkable.
Now
more
locally.
As
I
said,
as
we've
already
heard,
the
city
of
bellevue
has
flown
the
pride
flag
and
the
police
department
convenes
an
lgbtq
advisory
group
to
help
in
its
work,
bellevue
college
hosted
a
pride
festival,
the
largest
outside
seattle
in
2019,
and,
as
mayor
robinson
said,
we
dedicated
the
first
of
three
rainbow
crosswalks
outside
of
seattle.
D
Just
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
gay
straight
alliances
or
their
equivalents
exist
in
middle
and
high
schools
across
the
east
side.
I
honestly
never
would
have
imagined
groups
like
that
when
I
was
in
school,
local
organizations
and
agencies
like
youth,
eastside
services,
friends
of
youth,
first
united
methodist
temple
to
her
sinai,
easter,
unitarian,
eastside,
pride,
p,
flag,
bellevue,
eastside
and
so
many
more
devote
resources
to
addressing
mental
health,
housing
and
our
sense
of
community
and
belonging.
D
I've
also
seen
some
incredible
changes
within
our
south
asian
communities.
Here,
the
india
association
of
western
washington,
now
indian
american
community
services
has
held
open
forums
to
reduce
the
stigma
and
build
acceptance
from
within
the
community,
the
sphere
showcases,
south
asian
queer
cinema,
thus
making
more
mainstream
many
different
perspectives
of
ways
of
being.
I
have
even
introduced
my
husband
to
older
uncles
and
aunties
during
noratri
and
diwali
celebrations.
We
can
even
hold
hands
in
one
of
the
100
indian
grocery
stores
here
and
feel
perfectly
safe
and
welcome.
D
D
I
think
about
that
gay
kid
cast
out
onto
the
street
by
parents
who
would
rather
follow
tradition
than
act
with
love.
I
think
about
that
black
trans
woman,
whose
life
is
in
danger
every
time
she
steps
outside
or
goes
on
a
date.
I
think
about
that
girl
first
forced
to
use
the
men's
bathroom
because
of
a
single
letter
on
her
birth
certificate.
D
Look
pride
is
about
celebrating
the
incredible
progress
we've
made
over
the
past
50
years,
but
it
is
also
about
showing
up
in
solidarity
for
those
in
the
queer
community
and
across
all
marginalized
communities.
Pride
is
not
only
about
celebrations
on
korea
on
parade
floats
sponsored
by
companies
trying
to
showcase
support
for
a
community
through
their
money.
Pride
is
not
only
about
cities,
raising
the
progress,
pride
flag
and
appreciated,
but
ultimately
superficial
gesture,
if
not
backed
by
action.
D
No
pride
is
about
being
proud
of
who
we
are
in
the
face
of
governments,
religions,
ethnic
groups
and
others
that
say
that
we
are
incorrectly.
Human
pride
is
about
knowing
that
we
are
not
equal
until
we
are
all
equal,
including
those
most
targeted,
transgender
and
non-binary
youth,
those
in
the
intersection
of
race,
disability,
neurodiversity
and
poverty.
D
Our
vanished
indigenous
and
two-spirit
siblings,
sex
workers
trying
to
survive
when
our
biases
and
economies
reject
them.
Pride
is
about
you,
those
with
privilege
and
power,
our
straight
cisgender,
neighbors
and
leaders,
taking
a
stand
to
move
beyond
how
we
used
to
think
and
how
we
used
to
do
things.
D
D
We
raise
a
pride
flag
today
to
symbolize
us
all
moving
up
together,
so
let's
get
to
work
and
make
that
happen.
Once
again,
I
truly
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
share
my
perspective
today.
I
really
hope
that
future
spaces,
like
this
invite
voices
of
those
who
are
far
more
marginalized
than
I
am
thank
you
again
for
this
honor
and
happy
pride.
A
I'm
certain
you
now
know
why
we
invited
him.
He
was
our
first
choice
as
the
dei
team
met.
We
said
seppen
is
the
person,
but
I
would
also
like
to
take
this
time
before
we
have
the
actual
raising
of
the
flag
to
once
again
thank
the
leadership
of
bellevue.
I
would
like
to
thank
our
mayor,
our
city
council
members,
our
city
manager,
leadership,
team
and
all
staff
members.
Thank
you
for
the
work
that
you
do.
Mayor,
robinson
city,
council
members.
A
You
model
for
our
city
manager,
the
type
of
leadership
in
the
direction
that
you
would
like
for
the
city
of
bellevue
to
flow
in
and
our
city
manager
is
doing
a
wonderful
job
of
lifting
up
the
values
that
you
bring,
and
I
would
like
to
say
to
you
sepp,
and
I've
lived
here
since
1987
bellevue
welcomes
the
world
and
that's
the
slogan.
That's
our
vision,
that's
everything,
but
I
would
like
to
add
one
word
and
that
is
people
belong
to
bellevue
you're,
not
a
visitor
you're,
not
a
guest.
A
You
are
a
member
of
the
family,
so
leadership.
We
thank
you
for
modeling
that
thank
you
now
with
that.
I
think
you've
been
sufficiently
inspired
for
the
day.
If
not
this
has
been
recorded.
I
suggest
you
listen
to
it
again
at
this
time.
I
would
like
to
welcome
the
honor
guard
to
come
up
and
raise
the
progress
flag.
A
Once
again,
thank
you
all
for
joining
us
today.
Thank
you,
mayor
robinson,
thank
you,
city,
council
members.
Thank
you,
city
manager,
miyaki,
thank
you,
fire
chief
hagen
and
chief
shirley.
Thank
you
all
for
joining
us
today
for
this
special
raising
of
the
flag.
I
hope
you
all
enjoyed
the
remainder
of
pride
month
and
have
a
good
day.
Thank
you.