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The flag also honors those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have passed away A new Pride flag design has gone viral for the creative way it includes queer people of color, the transgender community, and the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. The “progress Pride flag” is the work of queer, nonbinary, demisexual artist Daniel Quasar. The retooled design takes the traditional rainbow flag, created by Gilbert Baker, and adds arrow-shaped stripes that incorporates the transgender Pride flag, as well as adds brown...

In a new video from Fondation Émergence, a gun is fired at 193 rainbow Pride flags - one for every country in the world. Together, the flags can stop a bullet - just as when citizens of the world stand together we can stop LGBTQ violence and discrimination through the power of our togetherness. From the video: LGBT people around the world are still the targets of prejudice and violence. What if we all took a stand against it? We created this flag to...

She was told it could set a precedent of neighbors flying other "offensive" flags, like the Confederate flag. A community has rallied in support of a Florida woman who was ordered to stop flying her rainbow pride flag. Jenifer Raymond, who lives in Rockledge, said her landlord received an email from a member of the neighborhood’s architectural review committee, saying only American, state, or military flags may be flown, and ordering her to remove the pride flag she had flown for...

For his first solo headline show at London’s O2 Arena, Harry Styles made a colourful and empowering splash. The former One Direction star managed to turn his 12,000-strong audience in a huge, shimmering, Pride flag, as the colours of the rainbow twinkled across the venue. Before the show, a group of fans known as the Rainbow London Project gave the crowd rainbow tickets that they could attach to the flash on their smartphone cameras. The colours were distributed throughout the audience so...

Get that Pride Flag ready… Landing in San Francisco is about to get a whole lot more colourful. San Francisco International Airport have officially announced plans to rename their Terminal 1 in honour of Harvey Milk, who became the first openly gay elected official in America back in 1977. As we all know, within a year the activist and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by ex-Supervisor Dan White in City Hall. Former City Supervisor David Campos introduced the idea of...

Gay goth Darkness Vlad Tepes has launched a campaign to add a black stripe to the iconic rainbow flag, helping goths become more integrated in the LGBT community. Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph, Tepes “Very few goths are ever seen in the gay community but when they are they are not always welcomed due to their dark gothic fashion. “When some goths go to the gay scene a minority of them get confused with being into the dominatrix sexual lifestyle which...

"There just seems to be more people feeling they have a duty or right to be mean and destructive." Hudson, Wisconsin, has a population of just over 12,000 and is a good 300 miles from Milwaukee. But it’s being plagued by a big-city problem: Someone keeps stealing rainbow flags from people’s porches. In April 2017, Pride flags were stolen from two homes and a third was set on fire, with the burned remains left on the sidewalk. It wasn’t the first...

When high school senior Logan Waner painted his school parking space with a Pride flag, he did not expect to end a six-year-long school tradition. The student, who goes to Marion High School in Kansas, was following school rules in decorating his spot with a rainbow, and even got the design approved beforehand. Waner said on Facebook that he “mostly chose to paint the flag because it’s simple enough and I’m a horrible artist. “It described me well enough, so it just...

'I don't want my children to be influenced by people like you': Outrage as woman says gay photographer can no longer take her maternity photos after learning of her 'unacceptable lifestyle' A pregnant mother retracted her request to work with an Alabama photographer after sifting through her social media page and seeing an LGBT pride flag. It seems the woman initially reached out to the Mobile-based photographer, Faith Grace, 21, at some point this week and asked her to take her...

Talk about a show of love. Lady Gaga kicked off the Joanne World Tour in style on Tuesday night (August 1), treating fans to an epic show of love as she launched into a hit-packed setlist which included tracks from across her almost decade-long career. And while getting to grips with a brand-spanking new show might be enough to keep most artists occupied for an evening, Mother Monster managed to break with proceedings halfway through the show to launch into an...

For Northern Irish student Ciara Cinnamond, it was an excruciating dilemma. At the same time the 23-year-old was graduating from Queen’s University Belfast this weekend, thousands were marching through the streets to call for same-sex marriage to be legalised. So Ciara, who had her girlfriend in the audience, found a way to do both. As she crossed the stage at the prestigious, gilded Whitla Hall to shake the acting vice-chancellor’s hand, Ciara unfurled a rainbow pride flag about as big as her. The...

"If they try to take it down again we'll put another one up." A Texas couple’s rainbow flag was ripped down and set on fire early Thursday morning. Markus Maguire and his husband, Wilson Nash, found the still smoldering flag stuffed in their mailbox with neighbor’s mail used as kindling. A neighbor’s security cameras captured video of a van pulling up to the house, someone pulling the flag down and the van leaving. The vehicle returned a few minutes later so...

Mike Pence is set to become the most antigay incoming Vice President in modern history, and according to WJLA, his new D.C. neighbors aren’t so keen on having a known homophobe on their block. Ilse Heintzen lives just down the block from the house where Pence is currently staying as he waits to move into the Vice President’s mansion on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. After learning Pence was moving to the neighborhood, she and some of her neighbors...

A former Donald Trump supporter is not happy with the nominee for waving a rainbow flag. The Republican Presidential nominee briefly waved an upside-down ‘LGBT for Trump’ Pride flag at a rally today in Colorado. Though Trump did not speak about the flag-waving or affirm any support for LGBT rights, his comments have upset former Trump supporter and militant Christian activist Theodore Shoebat. Mr Shoebat fumed about Trump “bowing down to the sodomite agenda” in a clip snipped by RightWingWatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WoxR6rp1c4 He fumed: “In...