Rainbows everywhere 🌈

I agree.

Why don’t you want organisations to show the same support as the people who work for the company?

Do you think organisations should discourage lesbians being customers?

Well I'm not sure what I prefer to see on LinkedIn - golf selfies, #bossbabe or these flags pretending that companies care about people.

No wonder I've noticed people deleting their LinkedIn accounts! It's all a toxic mess

Is it because it's Pride month?
I'm on leave at the moment, I'm fully expecting the rainbow flag to be up when I am back next week.

Oh please, sticking a rainbow in their profile whilst they still have branches in the Middle East etc, is the very definition of virtue signalling. I’m bi and I’m fucking sick to dead of it, plus it’s all about the TQ now, which erases the LGB, so to me Pride and the rainbow symbolises homophobia now.

LGB was what the flag was once about.

If social issues taking over social media bothers you, I presume you're equally bothered on March 8th, International Women's Day, when companies post about how important female equality is?

Or do you just get bothered when you see people supporting LGBT rights.

It's not about broadcasting anything, for most, it's about not being forced to hide who you are. Many of us still have to consciously decide whether it's ok to be open. I even still hear the phrase "openly gay ", which says a lot about opinions.

It would be better if all the companies who make their money from changing their logo/product during pride month would donate some of their profits. That would make a real impact.

Other than that I think it's great for all the people who have been unsure if they will be accepted or not to see rainbows everywhere letting them know they are loved and accepted.

There was quite a lot of discussion around it, so it hardly got swept under the rug.

Personally I think that's total whataboutery and not relevant to this thread.
At the end of the day universities will ultimately reflect their students and research. Just because it is a university doesn't mean it is automatically a free for all for any speaker.

It’s perfectly normal in June for the flag to appear everywhere. Even in businesses.

It’s sad that in 2023, we still need to make it aware we accept a person for being gay.

I noticed the same on Linked in today too OP.

what a load of old shit.

Ive seem a lot of talk about the LGB community rejecting the new flag.

Interesting isn’t it, the people that pride is meant to represent aren’t actually the focal point anymore.

And YY to the pp who said they’d like to see the same commitment to disability awareness. Absolutely!

It's pride month 🏳️‍🌈

Until less than 10 years ago even something like wearing a wedding ring was broadcasting your sexuality by default.

Listen to yourself! Why on earth has a company lost their identity because they want to show support for the LGBT community?
Unless their identity was previously raging discrimination.
Well, what about Universities, whose identity and purpose is all about encouraging thought and discussion. Except that they get rid of GC staff (e.g. Kathleen Stock) who dare to think and discuss. Where was the support for her when she suffered "raging discrimination" from the trans community?

It annoys me because they do it for this cause but not for anything else.

Once they start doing it for people with disabilities etc I’ll be happy. Otherwise it just shows the pervasive commercialism of Pride/Stonewall etc.

I agree with this, but I don't think this was the OP's angle.

I don’t really understand why people want to broadcast their sexuality when I think about it, but it doesn’t annoy me day to day.

Wish I could have worded a post this well - exactly my thoughts!

I'm also pretty sure that when I had a miscarriage a decade ago - the rainbow was used back then too?

I didn't realise it was pride month.

It’s just virtue signalling. It’s the default of comms teams to turn the logo to a rainbow and put a social media post about their one openly gay colleague. Same as posting their handful of women on IWD or any other diversity celebration. It doesn’t actually mean they’re respecting the views of those people.

My old work did this and I put a complaint in about sexist behaviour and language and was close to putting in a case for maternity discrimination. I can’t comment on if they are actually accepting of LGBT people but I know they did the same for autism awareness but weren’t willing to put reasonable measures in place for someone with autism. Maybe I’m just jaded by my previous experience but I feel like those that do the social media posts are usually the worst for making provisions for the people they are talking about.

It's called rainbow washing and is just companies jumping on a bandwagon. They aren't doing anything other changing a logo, requires absolutely no effort and costs them nothing.

www.theurbanlist.com/a-list/rainbow-washing

It makes me think less of a company and that they must have poor marketing people working for them

I would be a more willing to accept companies shoving rainbows on their logos and doors when they show the same level of virtual signalling support to disabilities.

The problem for me is that these companies do it only for virtue signalling purposes. And also that they use the so-called progress flag which is not at all progressive in real terms.

I just roll my eyes at the likes of premier inn who do this now which is unfortunate.