Editorial on lgbtq flag
EDITORIAL: Pride Is More Than Waving Rainbow Flags, It’s About Addressing Challenges
Happy Pride Month! It’s June, which means that many businesses and people alike are showing off their Pride by incorporating rainbow colors, sharing stories and moments, and ensuring it’s clear they display complete support for the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, questioning/ queer, intersex and allies) community.
All over the District, rainbow flags can be seen hanging in windows and throughout the month are Pride parties and festivities, including the Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, June 10.
With a UCLA report noting D.C. is the U.S. municipality with the highest LGBTQIA+ population, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser emphasizes that the District has long acknowledged its queer community, with the first Capital Lgbtq+ fest held in 1975.
“Washington, D.C. is a leader in both LGBTQIA+ and human right6s, and I am proud that our laws reflect our D.C. values,” Bowser wrote in a proclamation. “D.C. has the highest percentage of LGBTQIA+ people in the nation, attracting LGBTQIA+ visitors from across the U.S. and the world to attend and move to Washington, D.C. because of our record as a we
In Germany, the Queer flag is at the heart of a new society war
The Bundestag president's refusal to fly the rainbow flag atop the parliamentary building during Berlin's annual procession in support of sexual and gender minority rights on July 26 has sparked controversy across Germany.
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The rainbow flag will not fly above the Bundestag on Saturday, July 26, during Berlin's Christopher Lane Day (CSD), the annual parade in support of Queer rights. This judgment, which ends a practice that began in 2022, has sparked heated debate in Germany at a time when the far right is gaining soil and attacks against sexual minorities are increasing.
The turning direct came in mid-May. Just days after the new government took office, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner, of the Christian Democrat (CDU) party, announced that she would ban the raising of the rainbow flag atop the Bundestag for CSD in the name of neutrality for public buildings and administration, considering it a "political demonstration." She explained that this symbol of diversity and the fight against discrimination would now only be displayed atop of the building one date a year: on May
Oxford Union rejects calls to fly the LGBT flag for Pride month
Waging war in the call of love is as old as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. The legend is that their army sent a thousand ships to liberate Helen of Troy all “for love.”
This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier raising the rainbow flag, a global symbol of gay pride since the 1970s, went viral. The image was posted and shared by Israeli government social media accounts.
On the flag, the soldier had written, “in the identify of love.” On social media, he wrote: “despite the pain of war - the IDF is the only army in the Middle East that defends democratic values. It is the only army that allows gay people the freedom to be who we are. And so I fully assume in the righteousness of our cause.”
This soldier’s publish is part of a phenomenon called “pinkwashing” or “rainbow washing” and has been part of an Israeli message for years. The idea that Israel is liberating queer communities serves as one of the pretexts for legitimizing its violence in Gaza and the Palestinian territories.
But the photo of the IDF soldier waving rainbow colours obscures nuance, context and history.
Pinkwashing for economic or p
If you needed more proof that gay men aren’t in control of things any more – at least where the activist set is concerned – look no further than the evolution of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag. If, as Oscar Wilde once wrote, ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we possess to alter it every six months’, then the new Pride flag is somewhere between a prisoner of war and Frankenstein’s monster: a tortured and overburdened horror; a stitched-together crime against nature.
What was wrong with the aged rainbow flag? Rainbows are happy and beautiful. Everyone loves a rainbow. And that, precisely, was the problem. You can’t strike fear into the hearts of your enemies with a rainbow. Big Same-sex attracted needed something more militant.
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If you needed more proof that gay men aren’t in control of things any more – at least where the activist set is concerned – look no further than the evolution of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag. If, as Oscar Wilde once wrote, ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we possess to alter it every six months’, then the new Pride flag is somewhere between a prisoner of war and Frankenstein’s monster: a tortured and overburdened horror; a stitched-together crime against nature.
What was wrong with the aged rainbow flag? Rainbows are happy and beautiful. Everyone loves a rainbow. And that, precisely, was the problem. You can’t strike fear into the hearts of your enemies with a rainbow. Big Same-sex attracted needed something more militant.
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Elisabeth Dampier
J.D. Vance is right about Germany’s civilisational suicide
The first edit came a few years ago, with the addition of brown and black stripes, which don’t belong on a rainbow but do pertain in intersectional grievance hustling. Then, in from the left side, like a tunnel-boring machine spectacularly grinding away all that peace, appeared t