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• PHILALPHIA’S NEW, CLIVE GAY PRI FLAG IS MAKG GAY WHE MEN ANGRY
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• PHILALPHIA GAY PRI FLAG

PHILALPHIA’S NEW, CLIVE GAY PRI FLAG IS MAKG GAY WHE MEN ANGRY

Much like Pri self, Philly’s flag — part of a cywi “More Color More Pri” mpaign — was borne of 2016, after a number of high-profile stori exposg racism Philly’s Gayborhood, people — pecially people of lor — started mandg more cln and tersectnaly Philly’s LGBTQ muny. The most monly ed Pri flag for many years has been the standard rabow flag, signed 1979 by Gilbert Baker (who’s sometim lled “the gay Betsy Ross”). ”Happy the wrer:Ben Deane (he/him) is a gay Philalphia-based creative, passnate about LGBTQ issu and Marvel ic characters.

It was troduced as part of a cywi “More Color More Pri” mpaign — and was borne of prott after several high-profile stori exposg racism Philly’s Gayborhood. Philalphia and s Pri mpaign’s addn of two strip to the rabow flag amidst the cy’s unrlyg problem wh racial discrimatn s gay bars. As Eater reported Febary, 11 gay bars and nightlife venu were recently required to take anti-racism trag after plats were ma that the bars and clubs were discrimatg agast nonwhe patrons.

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Hik told NBC that most of the phback her office has received rponse to the new flag has e om whe gay men.

And to be fair, ’s unclear whether the whe gay men who have plaed about the flag are fully aware of the discrimatn that’s been documented wh Philalphia’s LGBTQ muny, or the ntext of the flag’s clnary msage that’s specific to the cy.

And there have been many tim when the LGBTQ muny at large has failed s poor and non-whe members, and that many LGBTQ people, particularly whe gay men, have failed to regnize or ignored those failgs. The LGBTQ muny has equently shown that spe beg discrimated agast for beg gay or queer, s members are fully pable of discrimatg too. One example of this is sual discrimatn wh the muny that’s based on race, or body type, genr, or mannerisms, specifilly among gay men — the ia that anyone who don’t f the image of the “ial” gay man is somehow ls than.

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Discrimatn gay bars based on race (and not jt Philalphia) is another example. Other exampl clu failg to regnize or addrs latg vlence agast transgenr people Ameri, the untry’s problem wh LGBTQ homels youth (who are disproportnately likely to be nonwhe), and sufficient attentn and actn around the fact that HIV/AIDS disproportnately affects black Amerin gay and bisexual men And then there’s the nstant erasure of LGBTQ people of lor the muny’s history, like the whe-washg of the role of nonwhe dividuals the Stonewall Rts. Further, reports surroundg recent electns France, the UK, and the US have documented whe gay men adoptg alt-right, whe natnalist, and whe supremacist movements.

Jo the Police Advisory Commissn, Philalphia Police Department, Greater Philalphia Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) and the Office of LGBT Affairs for a ndid nversatn wh LGBTQ+ officers as we celebrate diversy durg Pri Month. The LGBTQ rights movement historilly centered whe, gay men and the first Pri paras largely exclud people of lor spe the important role they played the movement, cludg the well-known 1969 Stonewall uprisg.

In the first versn, which was ed the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para, Baker put eight strip on the flag, cludg hot pk and turquoise blue. Through explorg this topic, you n also fd lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer rourc and support, emphasizg the diversy of sexual and genr inty-based cultur.