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Philadelphia had a specific reason for adding black and brown stripes to the flag But on another, it represents a deeper divide and frustration that exists within the LGBTQ community, and the realization that, in spite of the LGBTQ’s community’s ongoing fight for equality, civil rights, and progress, there’s still divisiveness and discrimination within the community itself. On one level, the conflict feels like a simple byproduct of disconnect between the message of the flag and the people criticizing it, rather than anything malicious. ✊ ✊ ✊ ✊ /xRTIWvZSOY- Chief June 15, 2017Īt a glance, fighting over the rainbow flag might seem unnecessary. White gays dont like us including PoC in the Pride Flag? How about fuck off. That’s a lot more elegant than some of the conversation surrounding the new flag, like people asking for a white stripe, or people claiming that adding to the two colors to the flag is disrespectful or that it’s racist for not explicitly including white people.Īnd those sentiments have been met with a vocal, spirited response: Though Beal believes that Philly’s adaptation of the rainbow flag should be viewed as an independent symbol from the one Baker created, he acknowledged that he supports the intentions behind it. “The only thing we would ask is that other people would not take it and put Gilbert’s name on it, because they didn’t do it in consultation with him, and he didn’t do it.” (Baker died earlier this year, on March 31.)
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“The stripes were not chosen for skin color - they were chosen to reflect the spectrum of color in nature,” a longtime friend of Baker’s, Charley Beal told NBC. The flag has historically represented LGBTQ people as a whole, and critics of Philly’s changes to it believe those changes are unnecessary, since the flag is already a symbol of unity. Philadelphia’s initiative to be more inclusionary toward nonwhite LGBTQ people comes from a good place, but its reception has been marked by controversy. To fuel this important conversation, we’ve expanded the colors of the flag to include black and brown.” Especially when it comes to recognizing people of color in the LGBTQ+ community. A lot of good, but there’s more we can do. “In 1978, artist Gilbert Baker designed the original rainbow flag,” the campaign states. The colors, according to the Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs’ More Color More Pride campaign, represent inclusion of people of color in the LGBTQ community. population.The city of Philadelphia recently learned that the rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBTQ pride, isn’t quite as unifying as it may seem.įor Pride Month, Philly added two colors - black and brown - to the existing pride flag, and hoisted it outside City Hall. rights, they should ensure that the policy of “do no harm” is followed in order to prevent a backlash against the local L.G.B.T.Q. In the cable, which was earlier reported by Foreign Policy, State Department officials were told that when making decisions at their outposts to support L.G.B.T.Q. But in regions such as the Middle East and North Africa, where many countries outlaw same-sex relationships, displaying the flag could be contentious. The decision to display the flag is unlikely to be met with controversy in countries where L.G.B.T.Q. Embassy officials in South Korea removed the banner, though, at the same time the Trump administration ordered it to remove a Black Lives Matter banner. Some embassies worked around the directive, including in South Korea, which displayed it on a building facade instead of the flagpole. flag, saying the American flag should fly alone. embassies from flying the Pride flag on the same pole as the U.S. An envoy is yet to be named.ĭuring the Trump administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blocked U.S. envoy, and rejecting the findings of a Trump administration “Commission on Unalienable Rights” which human rights scholars saw as a threat to L.G.B.T.Q. Blinken told lawmakers he would support the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people, including allowing the pride flag at U.S. During his confirmation hearing in January, Mr.