The flags are symbols, visibility and claim. This June 28th, Pride Day is celebrated where the rainbow flag that represents the LGTBI collective flies again. The 1969 Stonevall riots in New York are remembered, where for the first time LGBT people confronted the police to demand equal rights and non-discrimination.
Other specific banners around sexual orientation and gender identity have been detached from the iconic rainbow flag. But it is the rainbow flag, created in the 1970s in the United States, that encompasses this common struggle for equal rights for all people regardless of their sexual orientation or identity. A demand that has special relevance in the current context of the threat of reversal of the rights won by the rise of the extreme right.
