FFS disability is now on the pride flag

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I'm livid. I'm disabled and I do not want to be represented on the LGBTQ+ flag.

Also this quote: Dayna Halliwell (she/her), Content and Engagement Manager at Evenbreak, led the collaboration and organised the Pride visit. She said: “It was very moving and amazing to see the reaction of disabled people in the audience. You could see the joy on their faces of being represented in the parade.”

https://blog.evenbreak.co.uk/2024/07/02/new-disability-inclusive-pride-flag-unveiled-at-london-pride/

The Pride flag now is the Progress Pride flag.

It’s a celebration of diversity, is it not? Unless you’re incredibly homophobic and don’t want to be associated, I don’t see why you’d have a problem with it

You try openly marching nowadays at a Pride event under a banner that proudly announces you are a same sex attracted lesbian and you'll quickly discover how diverse and homofriendly Pride now is.

(Clue: its not).

Why does it bother you?

The flag seems to me to be a representation of diversity.

I have a long term health condition that is classified as a disability and I am a bi woman.

I have no problem with this whatsoever.

If that flag does not represent you then simply don't use it/display it.

I am always amazed at how so many people these days choose to be offended by everything.

If you want to be offended by something I would focus on campaigning for the rights of disabled people not to be treated like dirt by so many employers, the DWP and the right wing media..This is what affects my life negatively, not a bloody flag....

Actually, disabled people are being coerced to “be part of it”. Look at the replies to those who have said that the flag doesn’t represent them.

Disable people (and indeed lesbians and others) are allowed to challenge the condescension of It was very moving and amazing to see the reaction of disabled people in the audience. You could see the joy on their faces of being represented in the parade. That speaker does not see disabled people as actual humans she sees them as “Validation Sources”. It’s actually quite sinister.

Sounds like a step towards disabilities being minimised even further and treated the same as identifying a certain way.

Pride used to be about sexuality…LGB it only recently that the T was added and focus shifted around 2017 to trans

There was a suggestion that this was because the introduction of various policy including same sex marriage that gave legal equality to the LGB community.They needed a new campaign to keep them in jobs.

Disabled people are highly underrepresented, face huge adversity, and gain the least awareness.

They deserve their own awareness campaign separate from pride not just tagged on at the end. I'd like to see organisations give as much investment and celebration to people with disabilities as they do LGBT+ people.

I am standing by my comment that Queer is not a gender identity which is what was claimed

Should we start putting races on there too?

Races are already on the Progress flag - the black and brown chevrons in the left.

It'll be to aid anyone to more easily self identify as having a disability. This whole self ID trumping facts is just way out of hand!

Time for a reminder...

Where did you get the idea that Pride was about gender? It's not even close! 🤦‍♀️

This is why straight people have no business sticking their nose in. Probably exactly why we've ended up in this mess in the first place.

Who the fuck would want to "celebrate" being housebound, unable to live without a carer, at risk of lifelong unhealing pressure sores and bladder and bowel incontinence whilst being visually impaired and unable to get from one room to the next without a 10 page risk assessment ?

Oh, not that kind of disabled.

I’m vegan, I do not want to be connected in any way shape or form to the misogynistic shit show that is now Pride!! - sorry I know you’re joking, but it won’t be long before someone puts this forward lol

”Queer way of life should be accessible to children”

https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/gender-ideology-and-child-abuse-apologism

A sprig of broccoli 🥦

I know people who identify as queer because they don't fit the gay or bi box, so consider themselves queer. I don't know ANYONE who considers queer a gender identitity.

This claim is genuinely puzzling. Queer has most definitely included, indeed centred, those with a gender identity! How can you claim it’s not?

No, that’s not what was claimed. Here is the post you quoted:

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LGB and TQ are different things too. The former are sexual identities and the latter are gender identities which are not the same at all.

This is what I don't get. Why group them all?
To legitimise fetishists and AGPs and probably a couple of paedos too who want to push boundaries and normalise themselves in wider society”

The post was about how everything is grouped together to blur the boundaries. The boundaries between sexuality, gender identity, and age of consent.

You don’t think “queer” is a gender identity. No one can explain what “queer” is then.

It will be an onion ring or a misshapen carrot with a penis. It is always either a hole or a bulge so to speak.

That's a good (and worrying point) especially when some people will undoubtedly identify as being disabled rather than actually having a disability. And don't get me started on those nutters who have amputations etc for no reason.
Maybe this new addition is also geared towards them?

This was awesome. Do we know what the event was supposed to be about? He’s talking about the dangers of anarchy, and queer theory because of their intrinsic endorsement of paedophilia.

The hecklers are shouting about trans rights and transphobia. What caused TRAs to link themselves with paedophilia by heckling that discussion?

When was it and who is he? It looks older than I think it is.

Here we go. Don’t agree with you so must be homophobic. The pride flag is not inclusive. It is highly divisive. No wonder some people don’t want to be associated with it.

ARE YOU SERIOUSLY JOKING!!!!

No. It's hard enough having an invisible disability without the added association of this madness. Now disability will be added in with the self id crowd. Why? Whose brilliant idea was this?

I was seriously considering wearing a disabled badge on my jacket to forgo assumptions being made about my physical ability when I don't look unwell, but I won't bother now if it's going to be taken as a declaration of self I.D. and associated with Pride.

100% this! It’ll be like EadyJet priority boarding soon with any luck.

Thank you for sharing this. Every time anyones kids school starts pushing this shit we need to email this to the safeguarding team