Streets around the world will be cked rabows this week as the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny celebrat LGBT Pri Month. Why...
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WHY THE GAY PRI FLAG STILL MATTERS
What value do the rabow have the gay muny today? Some might say has been overproduced and lost s meang even wh the gay muny.
It readily appears as a queer symbol even when is not s origal format and functns as a stand- for all the origal re valu, as well as the ntued pursu of human rights and equaly, terms of issu such as the crimalizatn of homosexualy, the age of nsent, and the right to get married and adopt children. The rabow also relat to genr inty, discrimatn based on this inty, and the general stigma around homosexualy that regards as somethg taboo and based.
However, the midst of the panmic, the rabow sudnly beme a symbol for the NHS the Uned Kgdom and the associatn once had wh the gay muny quickly dissipated. One iend suggted that the difference was that the rabows supportg the NHS were handma but the rabows for the gay muny were mechanil.
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
The rabow enamel ps that had been ed by doctors and nurs to suggt alliance wh the gay muny were now jt an ane form of self-promotn. In July 2021, an Instagram story the artist, Gray Wielebski, med “Still thkg about how fuckg bizarre was when they tried to rebrand supportg the NHS/sential workers wh the rabow flag here last summer for no reason except so homophobic/transphobic people uld put rabows up whout shame anymore.
At a muny level, there are Gay Pri flag burngs creasgly happeng across Ameri ci at nightclubs such as Alibi Lounge, one of New York Cy’s only Black-owned gay bars, where two cints occurred wh a month of each other 2019. And this act even occurs among some church and muny centers which hang the Gay Pri flag solidary wh the gay muny. There is a dark unrcurrent of homophobia perceptible siar acts of hatred played out on vio gam such as Mecraft shared anonymoly on YouTube as play-by-play vios.
In some muni, this vlent act is nsired a hate crime and the nsequenc n be severe, such as the se of Adolfo Martez, who was sentenced to 17 years prison after burng a Gay Pri flag at Am Uned Church of Christ Am, Iowa 2019.