Montana Gov Rages After City Evades Pride Flag Ban

NBC News reports:

The Missoula City Council approved a resolution recognizing the pride flag as the only official flag of the city of Missoula at Monday’s meeting. Ryan Sudbury, the city attorney for the City of Missoula, verified that the pride flag is the only official flag of the city of Missoula after the adoption at Monday night’s evening.

“Currently, there is only one official flag for the City of Missoula, and that’s the Pride flag adopted last night. There was no prior official flag,” Sudbury told NBC Montana via email. The resolution comes in response to House Bill 819, which Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law on May 13.

The bill prohibits flags on state property, including public schools, that represent a “political viewpoint, including but not limited to flags or banners regarding a political party race, sexual orientation, gender or political ideology” on government property. The bill has exclusions for certain flags like the Gadsden flag.

Read the full article. Similar moves were made last month by Boise and Salt Lake City. The state rep behind Montana’s ban is vowing new legislation to prevent cities like Missoula from evading his ban.

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state’s asinine pride flag ban.

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

— Rep. Zooey Zephyr (@zoandbehold.bsky.social) June 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM

8. Missoula isn’t alone in deploying this tactic—other cities have begun adopting similar measures to shield their right to fly the Pride flag. In Salt Lake City, council members moved to designate the Pride flag, the transgender flag, and others targeted.

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— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) June 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Greg Gianforte lied to law enforcement after committing a violent assault.

He does not “back the blue”

He uses his wealth to get special treatment you and I wouldn’t #mtpol #mtnews https://t.co/p1jEGHWjI4 pic.twitter.com/sn3mO7gR0d

— Max Croes (NBA MVP Tracker Guy) (@CroesFire) November 16, 2023

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