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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Matt Laviet</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Pri flags, which were created to promote uny, are beg lled polil and divisive some schools across the untry. A recent example: An Oregon school board on Tuday banned tors om displayg the flags. </p><p class="">“We don’t pay our teachers to ph their polil views on our stunts. That’s not their place,” a school board member Newberg, Brian Shannon, the policy’s thor, said at a rerd board meetg. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Several other school officials and stunts around the untry have targeted LGBTQ symbols. A teacher rigned Missouri last month after he was told to <a href=">remove</a> a rabow flag om his classroom and that he uldn’t discs “sexual preference” at school. Stunts at a high school near Jacksonville, Florida, were acced several weeks ago of harassg classmat a Gay Straight Alliance club and stompg on pri flags. And Augt, pri symbols were targeted at a high school near Dallas, where rabow stickers were orred to be scraped off classroom doors. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Rally Oppos Prohibg Black LIv Matter and Pri Flags Newberg Schools" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Stunts, teachers and parents rallied Thursday Newberg, Ore., to oppose an imment vote by the school board that would prohib Black Liv Matter and pri flags or banners schools. </span><span class="ptn__source">John Rudoff / Sipa USA via AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="">In most s, admistrators have said the LGBTQ emblems are divisive and “<a href=">polil</a>.” LGBTQ stunts, parents and teachers affected by the bans ntend that the new l harm a vulnerable group of young people.</p><p class="">“Feelg safe should not be polil,” said Victor Frsto, 16, a stunt at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, jt outsi Dallas. </p><p class="">“For me, when a teacher put up that sticker, basilly nveyed the msage that ‘when you e here, you will not be hated for who you love or what you intify as,’” said Frsto, who is gay. </p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="122526277822"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">Oregon school district bans 'ntroversial' flag displays</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Oct. 1, 2021</span><span>02:01</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Oregon school district bans 'ntroversial' flag displays& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The cisn to ban the rabow pri stickers sent a very different msage, Frsto said.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class=""> “By seeg how those stickers were removed, you get the msage that ‘I do not f here, I should not be here,’” he said.</p><p class="">Frsto, who is the print of his school’s Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, said the rabow stickers were removed overnight whout warng. </p><p class="">He and other GSA members took to the attentn of their GSA sponsors, a group of teachers who had already received an email om the school district about the matter.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Rally Oppos Prohibg Black LIv Matter and Pri Flags Newberg Schools" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Stunts, teachers and parents rallied Thursday Newberg, Ore., to oppose an imment vote by the school board that would Black Liv Matter and Pri flags or banners schools.</span><span class="ptn__source">John Rudoff / Sipa USA via AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="">“While we appreciate the sentiment of reachg out to stunts who may not prevly always had such support, we want to set a different tone this year,” read the email, which a teacher shared wh NBC News.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">The tors reassured the group that they would ph for an explanatn and fight to get the stickers back on classroom doors, Frsto said. But wh the next several days, two teachers were rted off mp, he said.</p><p class="">A spokperson for the Irvg School District cled to intify the teachers and, when asked about their alleged removals, told NBC News that the district “do not ment on employee-related matters.” </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_small__5hUB_ styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt=" A stunt walkout at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas." height="862" width="591"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer"> A stunt walkout at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Victor Frsto</span></figptn></figure><p class="">In rponse to the sticker removal, hundreds of stunts staged a class walkout last week. In a <a href=">vio</a> posted Wednday by the muny-based journalism platform Smash Da Topic, stunts n be heard shoutg, “Brg our stickers back!”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">After the prott, the district fend the move a <a href=">statement</a> as a way “to ensure that all stunts feel safe regardls of background or inty” by matag polil impartialy. </p><p class="">Newberg admistrators also ced polil ntraly fendg their policy. After havg e unr fierce cricism for prohibg pri and Black Liv Matter flags specifilly, school board members broaned a ban last month to block tors om displayg all symbols that the board emed “polil, quasi-polil or ntroversial.” </p><p class="">“Their place is to teach the approved curriculum, and that’s all this policy do, is ensure that’s happeng our schools,” Shannon, one of the seven school board members who spearhead the policy, said at a livtreamed <a href=">board meetg</a> Tuday night. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Rally Oppos Prohibg Black LIv Matter and Pri Flags Newberg Schools" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Stunts, teachers and parents rallied Thursday Newberg, Ore., to oppose an imment vote by the school board that would prohib Black Liv Matter and Pri flags or banners schools.</span><span class="ptn__source">John Rudoff / Sipa USA via AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The Newberg Cy Council and the Newberg Edutn Associatn, a unn reprentg 280 tors and staff members the district, have nounced the policy, and the Oregon State Board of Edutn has asked for to be revoked. Communy members have also petned to rell Shannon.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">“As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them,” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1,000 signatur.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">“I thk I speak for a lot of people my muny, but we n’t s here and let this happen,” Goff add. “They picked a really bad town to be the guea pig.”</p><p class="">Chelsea Shotts, 29, who is bisexual and works at an elementary school as a behavral terventnist the school district, said her mental health has terrated sce the district troduced the policy over the summer.</p><p class="">“If I only red about myself, I would jt qu — like, easily qu and leave,” Shotts said. “But the thg is I’m Newberg and I’m Dune bee I love the stunts, and they serve everythg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“I would rather be able to stay here and keep dog the work stead of beg attacked by a culture war that four board members started,” Shotts add. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Chelsea Shotts, a Newberg School District behavral terventnist, fac off wh a unterprotter at a monstratn over pri and Black Liv Matter flags last week Newberg, Ore." height="837" width="1280"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Chelsea Shotts, a Newberg School District behavral terventnist, fac off wh a unterprotter at a monstratn over pri and Black Liv Matter flags last week Newberg, Ore.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Chelsea Shotts</span></figptn></figure><p class="">School admistrators aren’t the only people who have gone after pri flags and LGBTQ symbols this school year. </p><p class="">Police Blacksburg, Virgia, are vtigatg several thefts of pri flags outsi a Virgia Tech relig center. In one se, the LGBTQ symbols were <a href=">replaced</a> wh two Conferate flags. And Geia, a high schooler was charged last month wh <a href=">attackg</a> another stunt draped a pri flag a school feteria.</p><p class="">Advot have long been warng tors about the disproportnate rat of bullyg, harassment and mental health issu plagug LGBTQ youths.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">A <a href=">survey</a> this year by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn, found that 42 percent of the nearly 35,000 LGBTQ youths who were surveyed serly nsired suici wh the last year. More than half of transgenr and nonbary youths who were surveyed serly nsired suici, also found.</p><p class="">A separate <a href=">survey</a> nducted by The Trevor Project last year found that LGBTQ youths who reported havg at least one LGBTQ-affirmg space also reported lower rat of attemptg suici.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: Cai and Cael Woolsy" height="2123" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Beth Woolsy's children, Cai and Cael Woolsy, both 14, on their first day of school Newberg, Ore.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Beth Woolsy</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Beth Woolsy, who is bisexual and has two LGBTQ children who attend school Newberg, said the harrowg numbers weigh on her as she sends her kids back to school every day.</p><p 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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * usa gay flag *

"Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. They are om nearby Dearborn where they were part of an effort last year to ban books wh LGBTQ+ talkg pots mirror those ma elsewhere: some Hamtramck Mlims say they simply want to protect children, and gay people should “keep their home” that sentiment is “an erasure of the queer muny and an attempt to shove queer people back the closet”, said Gracie Cadix, a queer Hamtramck rint who is part of the Anti-Transphobic Actn Amer Ghalib, 43, who was elected 2021 wh 67% of the vote to bee the natn’s first Yemeni Amerin mayor, told the Guardian on Thursday he tri to ern fairly for everyone, but said LGBTQ+ supporters had stoked tensn by “forcg their agendas on others”. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny. “[I]t was mostly low-e street queens, aga many of them Black and brown, who fought the ps the streets outsi the Stonewall Inn three years later, ” they ntued, addg that most Whe lbian and gay activists at the time nmned any type of fightg back agast police favor of a more “rpectable” image. The problem wh creatg this kd of hierarchy of rpectabily is that empowers the most privileged gay and lbian people at the expense of members of the queer muny who are still seen as ‘viant, ’ like trans people.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * usa gay flag *

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state ’s lawyers mataed that she didn’t have to be punished for vlatg the law before challengg .

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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

Blken thorized diplomats to fly the pri flag before May 17, which is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, and to ntue their display at diplomatic outposts through the month of the ble, Mr.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill, " the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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Tradnal Gay Pri Flag (Image cred: Getty Imag/Norberto Cuen)This is probably the flag you'll see most often: Six lors, apparently easier to produce than the odd-numbered seven (although other reports say was more about makg the flag easier for paras and to hang on posts).

But the "leather flag, " created by Tony DeBlase 1989, is a symbol of that muny (which clus many gay men)—black may symbolize leather, whe is pury, blue is votn, and the heart is Brotherhood Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/grebhkovmaxim)Craig Byrn and Pl Wzkoske 1995 ma the "bear flag" for "a subculture of mascule-prentg gay, bisexual and trans men who embrace facial and body hair and may have larger bodi. ”“Wh all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny, ” the statement ntued.

Today, Two-Spired people are dividuals that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, other genred dividuals, as well as third or fourth genred dividuals who live and intify between the worlds and genrs. Bear pri flagThe bear pri flag celebrat a subculture of the LGBTQ muny that refers to gay or bisexual men who have facial and/or body hair and embrace fortably wh masculy and their bodi, acrdg to Montclair State Universy. 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.

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Gay Pri Flag - USA Amerin Pri - U.S. Rabow Flag - Polyter 3 x 5 * usa gay flag *

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”. 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.

NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'

Celebrate gay pri wh the rabow flags and pri flags available at low pric om the Uned Stat Flag Store. * usa gay flag *

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. 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.

The rabow LGBTQ Pri flag n now fly over US embassi once aga, thanks to a directive om the State Department (AFP via Getty Imag)At Uned Stat embassi, the Pri rabow n now fly alongsi the stars and a nfintial memo obtaed by Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Antony Blken thorized all Amerin embassi and nsulat around the world to display the LGBTQ Pri flag on the same flagpole as the Amerin one – somethg the Tmp admistratn had change of policy time for Pri Month, June, and the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, on 17 memo did not make the display a requirement, however, and advised embassi to ci whether flyg the rabow was “appropriate light of lol ndns. “For me, when a teacher put up that sticker, basilly nveyed the msage that ‘when you e here, you will not be hated for who you love or what you intify as, ’” said Frsto, who is gay. “As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them, ” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1, 000 signatur.

Pri Flag roundup looks at the var LGBTQ pri flags the muny. The pri flag meang and pri flag lors are also explaed here tail tanm wh LGBTQ Pri Month. Gay, lbian and transgenr symbols tailed as well. * usa gay flag *

A source told Philalphia Magaze, “Wh all of the Black and Brown activism that’s worked to addrs racism the Gayborhood over the past year, I thk the new flag is a great step for the cy to show the world that they’re workg toward fully supportg all members of our muny.

Today, Print Bin issued a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins across the untry.

The New York Tim issued a statement fendg s edorial board member Mara Gay after she went on televisn and exprsed the “disturbg” sight of Amerin flags she wnsed durg a vis to Long Island New York. * usa gay flag *

” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. Print Bin has assembled the most diverse Admistratn our Natn’s history, and is proud to serve alongsi the 14 percent of all appote who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. NYT/MSNBC’s @MaraGay: In Long Island last weekend, I saw “dozens of Amerin flags, ” which was “jt disturbg” — Tom Elltt (@tomselltt) June 8, 2021New York Tim edorial board member Mara Gay's ments on MSNBC have been irrponsibly taken out of ntext.

She also warned of those she lled “normal homosexuals, ” who chewed fightg palism favor of assiatn to the profsnal historil realy of queer stggle is lost Pri’s whewashed rporate brandg, which is remarkably apolil on the issu that matter to the most margalized people the LGBTQ muny: affordable hog and health re, sex-work crimalizatn, and an end to policg and rceratn. Tmp's admistratn has announced a mpaign to crimalize homosexualy overseas and this month issued a tweet and formal statement to "celebrate LGBT Pri Month and regnize the outstandg ntributns LGBT people have ma.

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