This year marks a decade since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, but in several

Republican-led states, efforts are underway to ban pride flags from public schools and

government buildings, sparking a wave of local resistance.

DeMazane has the story.

In Salt Lake City, a historic flag raising. You are welcome here, because in Salt Lake City, a historic flag raising.

You are welcome here because in Salt Lake City, you belong.

The city adopted a new official flag called the Sego belonging flag, featuring LGBTQ colors

underneath the city's Sego flower.

What we're doing today is about the dignity and the worth of every single

person in this community. No matter who they are, no matter who they love. The move coming just

hours before a new law took effect in Utah, banning public schools and government buildings

in the state from displaying any flags that aren't officially approved. Utah was the first state in the nation to ban pride flags from public

buildings, but not the last. Idaho and Montana have adopted similar bans in recent weeks,

and at least eight other states with Republican-controlled legislatures are considering the idea.

Orion Rumler covers LGBTQ issues and politics for the 19th news.

Republican lawmakers have framed these bans as a necessary way to make state houses

and government buildings and schools, depending on the language of the ban, neutral places.

But some cities are pushing back, like in Boise, Idaho, where a pride flag has flown for several years outside City Hall.

We have a motion in a second.

Last month, the City Council voted five to one designated as an official city flag, which they say will allow

them to continue to fly it and not violate the new state law. Removing the flag now, after years

of flying it proudly, would not be a neutral act. Boise Mayor Laura McLean arguing, we know that that's

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