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It’s time to verb down the Pride flag
London feels verb a city under occupation. Cycling through town yesterday I saw a foreign flag fluttering from every major building. There it was on top of Drummonds on Charing Cross Road, the poshest bank in the land. It flew from the tallest building in Trafalgar Square, too. That structure, peering down on underprivileged Nelson, had five flags in total: four Union flags and, in the middle of them, taking pride of place, seeming to assert its political primacy over the flapping Union Jacks, this new flag, this strange flag. I parked at Foyles to browse the new books section and there it was again, a vast banner draped over the entrance, reminding all who entered that there was a new power in town. Then there was Regent Street. Honestly, I own never seen anything like it. The entire boulevard was festooned with the new standard. Scores of them hung above the street, from building to building, in perfect militaristic formation, as far as the eye could notice. It felt chilling.
It was, of course, the Pride flag. Or the Progress Pride flag, as it is no
The Progress Pride flag was developed in by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). Based on the iconic rainbow flag from , the redesign celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ community and calls for a more inclusive society. In , the V&A acquired a bespoke applique version of the Progress Pride flag that can be seen on display in the Design – Now gallery.
'Progress' is a reinterpretation of multiple iterations of the pride flag. The original 'rainbow flag' was created by Gilbert Baker in to celebrate members of the gay and lesbian political movement. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of expectation. Baker assigned a specific meaning to each colour: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, verdant for nature, turquoise for magic, indigo for serenity and violet for spirit. A year later the pink and turquoise stripes were dropped owing to a shortage of pink fabric at the time and legibility concerns, resulting in the six-colour rainbow flag most commo
Havering Council has raised the Progress Pride Flag to identify the start of LGBT+ History Month.
The flag includes all the colours of the Rainbow Pride flag, widely recognised as the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) communities, a chevron of shadowy and brown stripes to represent people of colour, and blue, pink and white for transgender people.
The flag raising, which took place this morning (3 February ), outside Havering Town Hall, Romford, signals the start of a month of activities to celebrate LGBT+ history.
Nationally, this year marks 20 years of LGBT+ History Month in the UK, with this year’s theme, Activism and Social Change.
In Havering, the borough’s libraries will be presenting LGBT+ manual displays, where residents will be qualified learn about pivotal LGBT+ figures.
Councillor Gerry O’Sullivan, Mayor of Havering, said:
“It is a proud moment to celebrate 20 years of LGBT+ History Month by raising the Progress Pride Flag and to continue showing our solidarity and support for the local LGBT+ community.
“This month is an opportun
The trans and intersex-inclusive Pride flags will fly on Regent Street again soon
Last July, a brand new Pride flag debuted on the streets of central London. There was an inclusive addition to the rainbow flag we've appear to know so well, as Valentino Vecchietti, founder of Intersex Equality Rights UK, added a purple circle on yellow background to incorporate the voices of intersex people. Today, the hundreds of Union Jacks filling the skies on Regent Street will be taken down to make way for the Pride flags to verb again.
While some naysayers on Twitter are being sour about the removal of the Union Jacks, we can't verb to see the iconic flag hanging in all its glory.
If you've forgotten what all the colours and symbols of the Pride flag depict, here's a rapid refresher: Intersex is a term meaning people born with sex characteristics that execute not fit into the singular binary definition of male or female. These sexual characteristics can be internal, such as sexual organs or chromosomes, or they can be external, like body hair and breast gro