Lake Bluff nsirs flyg gay pri flag on village flagpole; ‘We n send the right msage, that we are an acceptg ... muny’

Contents:

• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• MLM PRI (GAY MEN*)
• WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

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”. 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. One er replied to a transcript of the mayor’s speech the day the flag was raised: “Homophobia disguised as ‘equaly.’ The mayor and village uncil should be ashamed of themselv (although I’m sure that isn’t the se).

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

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.

A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague.

A monument the Netherlands that is dited to LGBTQ people who have been persecuted due to their sexual orientatn has been vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past.

MLM PRI (GAY MEN*)

The graffi pated at the monument se and on the bench clud drawgs and anti-gay slogans, cludg “fuck gays, ’ “fuck Pri, ” and “weg met pri, ” or “down wh Pri. “It is a ser form of vandalism that stems om homophobia, ” she said, acrdg to the NL Tim.

“The Homomonument is a symbol of acceptance and eedom.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

The vandalism of the Homomonument follows a strg of homophobic attacks on property across the Netherlands recent months. In April, a group of about 20 adults attacked a buildg where a group of gay teens were meetg, beatg up a volunteer workg wh the teens and attemptg to set fire to a rabow flag hangg om the buildg’s exterr while shoutg anti-gay slurs.

’s Gay NightlifeOrlando Tourism Board Releas Ad Beggg LGBTQ People to VisSktl Cs a Conservative ConniptnNorth Carola Republins Overri Veto of Anti-Trans Bills. The Lake Bluff Village Board is nsirg raisg a gay pri flag on a village flagpole, but tste are lookg for addnal rmatn before takg formal members discsed the ia at a July 10 Commtee of the Whole meetg, rumg a nversatn that began at a June ssn after two rints ntacted village officials supportg the ia of raisg a pri flag, acrdg to village documents.