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This town is now known as 'Gay Hell' in a Pride Month rebuke of Trump
In Hell, Mich., you can eat a gravedigger sundae, send a burned and singed postcard, or get married in the Chapel of Love. You just can’t fly any flag that doesn’t represent LGBTQ pride, now that musician and comedian Elijah Daniel is in charge.
The ban on non-pride flags is a joke, Daniel told The Washington Post on Tuesday, but he insisted he really did temporarily buy the unincorporated community of Hell and change its name to “Gay Hell” for Pride Month. The purchase is meant as a rebuke to the Trump administration’s refusal to grant requests by embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag this month, and Daniel hopes the stunt will motivate his fan base to make political statements of their own.
“I have a very young audience, so I’m trying to get them more politically active,” Daniel, 25, said in an interview.
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