Pride flags ignite hope and outrage in Utah as youth suicide soars.

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Project Rainbow volunteer Nick Kiahtipes plants rainbow flags in Salt Lake City in June 2018. (Image: Project Rainbow)

For the first time last June, residents in Heber City, Utah, saw their downtown adorned in rainbows.

Sky Elizabeth Smith, 15, remembered driving with her family through the tiny Rocky Mountain town in northern Utah where she grew up, and finding…