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The Pri flag is now flyg the Uned Arab Emirat, one of the most religly nservative untri. Beg gay is illegal there.

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Today’s straight flags or heterosexual flags were created the name of “straight pri” – a ncept that, while seemgly harmls enough, is often rooted homophobic and transphobic sentiments.

Sce the 2013 “gay propaganda” law was passed  Rsia – a law that bans anyone om “spreadg propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” among mors – the Rsian ernment has ntued to crack down on LGBTQ rights the untry the name of prervg “tradnal valu”. Sometime between then and now, an effort to “warn agast” the so-lled “gay-fever at home” and to “support tradnal valu [the] untry”, the Uned Rsia Party unveiled s own versn of a “straight flag”.

GRADUATG US STUNTS HAND UNIVERSY HEAD PRI FLAGS PROTT OVER ANTI-GAY POLICI – VIO

The problematic flag was disparaged by crics not jt for s homophobic msagg but also for s strikg siari to the flag of the French group La Manif Pour To, another anti-same-sex marriage group. Glenn Bishop, one of the 12 who sought to fly the flag, told CBC that the group was “not agast the gay pri people at all” and that “anybody’s sexual preference is their choice” – echog nservative sentiments about gayns beg a matter of personal choice rather than an herent inty.

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One er replied to a transcript of the mayor’s speech the day the flag was raised: “Homophobia disguised as ‘equaly. But the legimacy of this so-lled missn to qutn when many of the group’s members are associated wh var homophobic, transphobic, and whe supremacist far-right factns such as the Proud Boys, the New Amerin Guard, and Rist Marxism. They e the rhetoric of the left and play victim out of fear that the world as they know – one where they are ee to exprs their transphobic and homophobic sentiments – will change.

The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc.

“It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said. Police Nebraska are vtigatg the burng of a gay Pri flag as a hate crime the latt of a rash of recent attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny believed to be driven part by onle the past week alone, Pri flags have been stolen, slashed or burned at least five stat, cludg California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.

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That’s on top of siar cints California and New York May, cludg a man that feted on a pri flag thefts and vandalism e as onle extremists have been spreadg a new hashtag recent weeks that enurag followers to damage, stroy or steal Pri flags wherever they see them, said Sarah Moore, an anti-LGBTQ+ extremism analyst for the Anti-Defamatn League and the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. “They are advotg for a stroy-the-Pri-flag challenge, or they ll them pture-the-flag challeng, where they advote for their followers to go out really creative ways and pture and face or set fire to Pri flags om private rinc and bs across the untry, ” she 's a crime to be gay: A visual gui to where LGBTQ rights are reprsed'Extreme' and 'hateful' bills: Bin mov to protect LGBTQ Amerins amid onslght of attacksRecent cintsIn Omaha on June 2, a masked man set fire to a Pri flag beg displayed outsi a home what’s beg vtigated as a hate crime, said the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office sheriff’s office said that home surveillance vio shows that the man appears to e accelerant before igng the flag and fleeg.

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