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A California city spent years banning the Pride flag and pulling LGBTQ+ books off library shelves. Now it's about to be represented in Congress by one of the most powerful gay men in the country.

Huntington Beach is a conservative Orange County beach town where residents show up to City Council meetings to praise Donald Trump and object to Pride. But new congressional maps - California's answer to Texas redrawing its own - just dropped the city squarely into the district of Robert Garcia.

Garcia, 48, is gay, an immigrant born in Peru, and the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. If his party takes back the House this November, he would lead the investigations into the Trump administration.

He isn't sweating the hostile new turf. "I've been dealing with homophobia my whole life," he told Reuters. "That's OK. That's America."

The city did everything it could to keep the flag down. Now its name sits on a district run by one of the most prominent gay leaders in Washington.

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From one of the comments

I grew up in Huntington Beach, went to Huntington Beach High School,there wasn’t the rampant right wing bigotry back then. HB was a nice place to grow up , my good friends were from different ethnic backgrounds we all got along. Somehow the city changed to a right wing hate mongering place that has no relationship to the fun place I grew up.

I’m happy that I no longer live there!
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