LOS ANGELES -- Whoever is stealing the Pride flags from the Shakespeare Bridge might want to reconsider their motives.
They're hard to miss, those flags. Attached by wire to four of the bridge's towers, they flap and flutter in the breeze, brilliant banners rendered almost medieval by the Gothic-style architecture, startling and resilient in the gloom of this year's spring and early summer.
Almost three weeks since the Franklin Hills Residents Association hung them, the flags seem almost brand new. Because they are. They first went up on May 27, in preparation for Pride month, and almost every other day since, someone has torn them down, sometimes shredding them in the process, sometimes balling them up and tossing them in the ravine below.
