The remaining donations will go to the Utah Pride Center and Encircle, a local resource center for LGBT family and youth. The total cost came to just over $2,500, and has since been covered through donations to Belnap’s GoFundMe account. And so Belnap came up with a backup plan to show support for her community: designing and hanging banners on the city lampposts. Initially, Belnap, a parent to LGBT children and a member of the LGBT community herself, hoped to put rainbow flags in private yards around Heber City as part of Project Rainbow, a fundraising campaign that benefits the Utah Pride Center. “I guess I knew that there were people who might not like it, but it’s turned into a much bigger issue than I’ve anticipated,” Potter said. She said she viewed the flags as a commemoration of a civil rights issue. Mayor Kelleen Potter, who gave the Pride flags the official stamp of approval, said she’s been surprised by the volume of feedback on the matter. But the controversy has also raised broader questions for the city about whether - and how - to determine what kind of content can be publicly displayed on city property. Some of the discussion has revolved around the flags’ message itself. The flags have caused a stir in the 15,000-person town and beyond, drawing attention at a Heber City Council meeting, on social media and from the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah.
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