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.
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- NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
- GAY PRI FLAG - USA AMERIN PRI - U.S. RABOW FLAG - POLYTER 3 X 5
- GAY MEN FLAG?
NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
* american gay flag *
It go back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, signed the first rabow flag.
Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. S., to create a symbol of pri for the gay muny. As he later said an terview, “Our job as gay people was to e out, to be visible, to live the tth, as I say, to get out of the lie.
The first versns of the rabow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francis Gay Freedom Day para. 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”.
GAY PRI FLAG - USA AMERIN PRI - U.S. RABOW FLAG - POLYTER 3 X 5
Gay Pri Flag - USA Amerin Pri - U.S. Rabow Flag - Polyter 3 x 5 * american gay flag *
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.
GAY MEN FLAG?
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 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.