Pride Flag
Pride Flag

While a fake version of the LGBTQ pride flag featuring Ukraine colorization was recently pushed around by trolls online, a very real update to the pride flag was applauded by prominent LGBTQ+ organizations online for featuring two distinct changes made. Pushed more towards the center are the triangles, with a new layer added that involves pure yellow with a purple circle, to stand for intersex, and most of a red umbrella taking up the middle of the flag, representing sex workers. Versions of the flag with just the intersex addition were starting to be seen in more places, only under the new name of 'progress flag' instead of pride flag.

As expected, a large number of people were not happy with the new flag changes. Though the dissent comes from people in two distinctly different camps — those who feel that the design keeps getting garish and more out of touch with each iteration, and those that don't like adding sex workers to a flag that's supposed to be about sexual identity and is routinely flown in public all around America. Though their reasons are different, the mutual dislike for the flag sets up an interesting saga on where pride and the flag goes from here, with either pushing forward or moving backwards being seen as betrayal of some communities.


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Oh Ben

Still dumbfounds me how they "collectively" decided to change their flag and remove the most easily understood symbolism about it.

I real feel for those who had to fight only for a small group of kids who's oppression is a blink in comparison decide to change the pride flag because they don't feel represented in a rainbow.

Change it the fuck back before you understand the mistake you making.

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Sumarios

in reply to You've Yeed Your Last Haw

Well then I've got good news. The LGBT movement is really just the T now. You're allowed to entirely disregard the grievances of gays (and lesbians and bisexuals). I think they should remove all the extra shit and just go back to the rainbow because it already represents everyone, but I'm just bi so what do I know.

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You've Yeed Your Last Haw

in reply to jruge

Lmao no one has called me homophobic yet. And I reject such accusations. I just expressed my disdain for a very specific segment of the LGBT community. Honestly, even when gay americans are white I just don't really hate them. They need to be upper class on top of that for me (a bi person btw) to do so.

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jruge

I think that the flag of the United Nations is a perfect example of how to approach this. Its just a simple view of Earth from the North Pole. Imagine if instead of that the UN decided to adopt a flag that displayed each individual flag of EVERY one of its members. You would end up with a messy, convoluted flag that does a bad job of representing humanity.

I think the same applies for the LGBTQ flag. Instead of trying to represent EVERY one of its members (altough i suppose its the "oppressed minority" flag at this point) you just use eight or six stripes to create a rainbow. Rainbows are already a symbol for diversity, happiness and hope so this makes perfect sense for the LGBTQ community.

I think the intent of these people is noble, but i think its misguided. Create something simple that everyone can rally behind and isnt difficult to understand. Again such a design could work (the American flag or the Union Jack) but the thing about those is that:
Each state is represented by a small star
The UK has very few members and their flags go together very well
The symbols here are occasionally massive and require a large amount of reorganizing to fit in, ironically sometimes removing representation from other groups.
Again, noble intent, but misguided.

Also, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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Sumarios

in reply to jruge

I agree with you except about their intent being noble. Everything on top of the normal rainbow is being pushed by grifters or just plain old narcissist who can't stand to be a normal member of the group.

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