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Flags again

It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.

Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:


The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:


Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:


And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.

Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.

Flags

If you’re British you’ve probably already heard of the campaign to fly English flags everywhere to “protest” migrants being in the UK. It is deeply upsetting and upsetting the people around me as well.

Unfortunately one particularly obnoxious flag is now flying in my home village. I looked at it and I thought how desperately unfair it was that that flag is allowed to be plastered over every city as a “you’re not welcome” to migrants, while the victims of the Pulse massacre got their flag painted over as a warning to LGBT people.

So I found a small flag I got from the Leicester Pride event and wrote on it.


Then me and Dave, god bless him, went out in the dead of night and attached the Pride flag to the lamppost.


Went past the same lamppost today and the Pride flag was gone. I was disappointed but not surprised. I wonder what happened to it. Did anyone read the message?

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