For unlimited access to the most important news from your local community, please subscribe or activate your digital account today. Philip DeVencentis is a local reporter for . Clement's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Avenue on Saturday evening. The alliance also planned to host a candlelight prayer service at St. 'As we raise this flag today, let their memory and their influence inspire us to do more.' According to a new Pew Research Center survey about homosexual acceptance around the world. 'We couldn't come here without acknowledging those who fought before us,' Stracco said. People fly the Gay Pride flag during the Madrid Gay Pride Parade 2013 on Jin Madrid, Spain. TRENDING: Amazon to open warehouse in Rutherford, bring hundreds of jobs Hasbrouck Heights, a Bergen County borough of roughly 12,000 people, is the only town in the 38th Legislative District that has refused to put it up, according to Swain. Wayne, a Republican bastion like Hawthorne, is flying it for the first time at its municipal building this month. Some towns have been much quicker than others to display the flag, which debuted at a parade in San Francisco in 1978. The decision not to elevate it on a pole instead bothered some advocates, and it was a minor factor in the alliance's formation. In the past, the Pride flag was hung in the window of the municipal building on Lafayette Avenue. The borough will continue to honor requests to fly flags of special-interest groups on the new pole, Goldberg said.