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The rainbow Pride flag on a downtown Bangor street is being repainted after it was defaced.
Bangor Public Works employees were painting over tire marks from burnouts Tuesday morning. The employees were repainting each color with multiple coats to cover the marks.
The flag was initially painted near a crosswalk on State Street on May 27 and was defaced in the following days. The flag is painted in the same area every year for June’s Pride month.
The location is near where three teenagers killed Charlie Howard for being openly gay on July 7, 1984.
Bangor spokesperson David Warren did not immediately respond to a request for comment.