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Neighbors Show With Pride Flags description: Neighbors in the Washington D.C. neighborhood where Vice President-elect Mike Pence has temporarily relocated in advance of his inauguration canonical: https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-01T16:16:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:04:50.112Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mike Pence's Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Gay Pride Flags og:description: "I hope he will change his mind" og:url: https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mike Pence's Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Gay Pride Flags twitter:description: "I hope he will change his mind" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mike Pence's Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Gay Pride Flags > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 1, 2016 4:16 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 1, 2016 4:16 PM UTC Neighbors in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood where Vice President-elect Mike Pence has temporarily relocated ahead of his January inauguration are trolling the governor with rainbow gay pride flags, according to a local news report. ABC affiliate [WJLA-TV](http://wjla.com/news/local/rainbow-flags-pop-up-in-vp-elect-pences-temporary-northwest-dc-neighborhood) reports that when Pence temporarily moved into a home in northwest Washington to prepare for his new job, neighbors displayed the pride flag outside to criticize his stance on LGBT issues. Pence signed the controversial [“Religious Freedom Restoration Act”](http://time.com/3764169/mike-pence-indiana-religious-freedom-2016-presidential-race/) as governor of Indiana, which allows businesses to decline to serve people if they say it conflicts with their religious beliefs. “I have no idea what he will think about, but I hope he will change his mind,” neighbor Ilse Heintzen told WJLA-TV. “This is one way that I can show my disagreement.” > [](https://twitter.com/ABC7Suzanne/status/804082443426942980) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/"},"headline":"Mike Pence's Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Gay Pride Flags","datePublished":"2016-12-01T16:16:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:04:50.112Z","description":"\"I hope he will change his mind\"","url":"https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/","keywords":["LGBT","Mike Pence"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/lgbt/","name":"LGBT"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4587386/mike-pence-gay-rights-pride-flag/","name":"Mike Pence's Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Gay Pride Flags"}}]}] ```