The elaborate rainbow light display (Photo courtesy Mary Pham)
BY JAMES NICHOLS
Huffington Post Gay Voices
After her neighbors displayed seasonal and sports-related flags on their homes last April, an Irvine, Calif., woman bravely mounted a rainbow flag in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. When she became the subject of anti-gay rhetoric and a warning from a friend — “Not in Irvine, Mary” — Mary Pham decided to take her LGBT support one step further this holiday season by mounting a MASSIVE installation of rainbow lights all over her whole home.
Pham was inspired to make the incredible statement of solidarity with the LGBT community after several neighbors expressed their disapproval of the rainbow flag, including one who left a Westboro Baptist Church flyer on her front door and another who placed a piece of paper that read “GOD HATES FLAGS” on her windshield.
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