Burning lgbtq flags
Colorado GOP rebuked by Republicans, Democrats after calling for burning Pride flags
The Colorado GOP is existence criticized for an inflammatory email with the subject line "God Hates Pride" and a video titled “God Hates Flags” that demonizes Pride Month and portrays the LGBTQ community with longstanding false tropes.
The email, sent by the group on Monday, suggests that the LGBTQ community is "godless" and aims to "harm our children," mimicking claims about the group that advocates contain called dangerous.
As criticism began to flood in, the Colorado GOP doubled down on their communication on Wednesday, posting on X: "Burn all the #pride flags this June."
The email, sent to party members, prompted criticism from several local Republican politicians, including Valdamar Archuleta. Archuleta, a homosexual man running to be the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Denver, has rejected the endorsement he earned from the declare party just one day prior.
Archuleta said he's a "critic of where the celebration of Movement has gone in recent years" but said the email "went too far and was just hateful," according to a post on X.
Is the burning of the Pride flag a detest crime?
By Label Walters, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex.
Pride month is a celebration of all things LGBTQ+. Yet recently it has change into a source of division, both between LGBTQ+ communities and wider society, as well as between subgroups within the community itself. Of particular contention has been the use of a new(ish) “Progress Self-acceptance flag”, created in 2018 by US artist and designer Daniel Quasar. The Pride flag incorporates additional colours that represent minority ethnic group members, as well as those naming as trans and genderqueer, while some versions of the flag also comprise the symbol for intersex. For many, the flag is an important voice of the struggles experienced and achievements gained by a section of population that has been historically persecuted and which continues to experience discrimination as well as increasing numbers of hate crimes. Despite this, there has been some recent public debate over whether a Parade flag is
4 could be charged with hate crimes for destroying LGBTQ pride flags, Atlanta police say
ATLANTA — Atlanta police said Tuesday that three men and a juvenile could encounter hate crimes charges after they pulled down LGBTQ celebration flags and trim them up at an intersection famous as the center of the city's LGBTQ community.
Police state they got calls at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday morning that six males were causing a disturbance near the corner of Piedmont Street and 10th Highway, an intersection in the city's Midtown neighborhood that is painted with rainbow crosswalks to honor its importance in Atlanta's LGBTQ community.
The men coordinated their plan and drove to Atlanta from their locations northwest of the urban area, police said. Officers are still looking for two of the six people who they assume took part.
Investigators initially told news outlets that the men had pulled down flags outside Blake's on the Park, a bar close the intersection, cutting them up with a knife and taking videos of what they were doing. The males fled from police on motorized scooters, investigators said, with officers catching and arresting four of them.
"They're in the middle of the street popping wheelies, tearing up
Northside residents report event flags burned early Wednesday
Some residents in Northside are alarmed after reports of a man burning pride flags in the neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
Porch camera footage provided to WVXU shows a man ride up to one house on a bicycle about 5 a.m. Wednesday.
He lights a pride flag hanging from the house's wooden porch on fire and says "I hope it burns your house down," before using a homophobic slur.
Warning: video contains explicit language.
The Cincinnati Fire Study Unit released a photo of the man suspected in the flag burnings. They're seeking any data about the incidents.
"These incidents are deeply concerning as they not only destroy property but also place entire communities at risk," CFD said in the news release. "The CFD-FIU is working diligently to identify the individual responsible
and to ensure the safety of Cincinnati residents. Residents in the affected neighborhoods are urged to remain vigilant and announce any suspicious activity, especially during evening and overnight hours. Anyone with data about these fires is encouraged to submit any tip anonymously through Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-
Gay Pride flag attacks mount amid online challenges by extremist groups
Police in Nebraska are investigating the burning of a gay Lgbtq+ fest flag as a despise crime in the latest of a rash of recent attacks on the LGBTQ+ community believed to be driven in part by online challenges.
In the past week alone, Event flags have been stolen, slashed or burned in at least five states, including California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. That’s on top of similar incidents in California and New York in May, including a man that defecated on a celebration flag in Manhattan.
The thefts and vandalism come as online extremists have been spreading a new hashtag in recent weeks that encourages followers to spoil , destroy or steal Identity flags wherever they notice them, said Sarah Moore, an anti-LGBTQ+ extremism analyst for the Anti-Defamation League and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
“We do know that this is a trend and we know a lot of this stuff is being driven by unlike campaigns online … in both extremists forums enjoy Telegram and also on mainstream social media forums like Twitter,” Moore said.
“They are advocating for a destroy-the-Pride-flag challenge, or they call them