PAFE appealed to supporters the morning of Friday, May 29 to contact WCDSB trustees to protest the decision to fly the flag. The Defense Department held its first LGBTQ Pride Month event at the Pentagon in 2012, according to CNN. No Gay Pride Flag The Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) has decided to shelve plans to fly its Catholic gay pride flag for the month of June, following backlash from both sides of the spectrum. Neighbors in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood where Vice President-elect Mike Pence has temporarily relocated ahead of his January inauguration are trolling the governor with rainbow gay pride flags, according to a local news report. " encourages all commands to likewise find ways to recognize the service and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in defense of this nation," Kirby said. Kirby said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will participate in Pride Month activities at the Pentagon next week.
President Joe Biden has declared June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month, keeping in step with other Democratic presidents. Kirby said the Pentagon’s decision not to change the policy "stems, rather, from a concern about other challenges to the policy that an exception of this kind might engender and encourage.”Ī senior defense official told CNN part of the DOD’s concern was that any change to the policy could result in any number of cause-related flags and symbols being displayed on military installations. The discovery of the emoji combination and its consecutive spread online sparked an outrage, with some users. The DOD policy, which limits which unofficial flags can be displayed at military bases, was put in place by then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper last July.Įsper’s announcement, in part, had to do with banning the Confederate flag and other potential hate symbols on bases amid last summer's racial tensions. Crossed-Out Pride Flag Emoji Combination (), also known as 'No Homo' Emoji, refers to a Unicode symbol combination which appears as a crossed-out pride flag on iOS mobile devices when emojis 'Pride Flag' and 'Prohibited' are combined. diplomatic outposts to fly the LGBTQ community’s Pride flag on the same flagpole as the American flag at embassies and consulates. The book says the meeting with Trump, Pence and Napolitano when the former president took a jab at Pence in and of itself suggested Trump was indeed serious about giving the judge some kind of. In April, Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a blanket authorization for U.S.
The statement puts the Defense Department at odds with the State Department.
Kirby added that the decision does not "in any way reflect on the respect and admiration we feel for all our LGBTQ+ personnel in and out of uniform." The Pentagon will "maintain existing policy for the display of unofficial flags" and "not grant an exception to display the Pride flag" at military bases, spokesman John Kirby said in a statement to CNN. military bases, the Department of Defense said Friday in a statement. The rainbow flag that symbolizes the LGBTQ community will not be flown at U.S.