I don't care," said Clarke, who voted no. "I'm going to get called a bigot tomorrow.
Window art at the Cavallis' toy store in downtown Solvang. The City Council last year officially declared June to be Pride Month in Solvang, and the town, just a few years ago, had a gay mayor.īut in February, the City Council rejected the Cavallis' banners by a 3-2 vote. In Solvang, much of the fury revolves around streetlight banners.Įarlier this year, husbands Kiel and Matthew Cavalli came before the City Council with a proposal to display LGBTQ+ pride-themed banners downtown and paint some crosswalks rainbow colors for the month of June. Conservative politicians nationwide are trying to ban drag shows where kids might be present. Bud Light sales tumbled amid right-wing furor over its marketing campaign involving a transgender influencer. Ron DeSantis, alleging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" for lashing out at the company after it spoke out against the state's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law. ONEderChild, the Cavallis' toy store, displays an LGBTQ+ pride flag along Copenhagen Drive. The uproar in Solvang comes at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are center stage in the U.S. town for bragging about its Danish heritage while snubbing its LGBTQ+ community. It got so ugly in this land of Scandinavian pancakes and sausages that the mayor of Copenhagen stepped in, admonishing the U.S. In now-public text messages, he called his critics "Chardonnay Antifa" and wrote that "for every butt hurt person" who spoke out at a City Council meeting, he would donate $10 to Gays Against Groomers, a far-right group that protests drag queen story events. Then high schoolers walked out of class in protest after school administrators ordered rainbow-colored crosswalks to be painted over.Īnd the councilman who acclaimed Solvang's friendliness - Robert Clarke - made some of the most heated and unfriendly comments of all. This spring, prosecutors filed charges against two young men for stealing a pride flag from a church a few miles outside town and burning it. People posted the names and photos of their four young children. The husbands who proposed the banners were harassed online, called groomers and pedophiles. The City Council shot down a proposal to hang pride-themed banners downtown - and both critics and supporters now say they've received death threats.
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