Is it true that the colors of the Ukrainian flag were added to the LGBT+ flag?

In May 2022, in social networks they began to publish one of the versions of the rainbow flag, supplemented by stripes of yellow and blue. We checked where this picture came from.

A photograph of an unusual modification of the rainbow flag at the end of May was published by users Facebook*, "VKontakte", Twitter and other social networks. Usually the picture was accompanied by signatures like "The new LGBT flag includes the colors of the Ukrainian flag." Image Published In his Telegram channel (116,000 subscribers at the time of writing this analysis), the political scientist and regular participant in Strimov Vladimir Solovyov Sergey Karnaukhov, clarifying that "in the West of the Nezalezhnaya citizens were determined in sex-minorities." In other Telegram channels, publication accompanied commentary on the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Army: “The inclusion of the flowers of the flag of Ukraine in the colors of the flag of the world LGBT community is the recognition of our valiant Armed Forces and an unprecedented victory over world evil.”

The rainbow flag of LGBT was Designed In the late 1970s in San Francisco-he was invented by the artist Gilbert Baker. Initially, there were eight lanes on the flag, but later their number was reduced to six. The world symbol of the LGBT community, according to the Britannica Encyclopedia, this flag became already in the mid-1990s.

Since the appearance of the LGBT flag is not fixed in any documents, different activists regularly offer supplemented and changed options. For example, the basis of the images who interested us is a version called Progress Pride, Developed In 2018, American designer Daniel Kuazar. According to his idea, the blue, pink and white stripes represent transgender and non -warar people, and brown and black - marginalized communities of color people. The black strip has a double meaning, since it also recalls “those who live with AIDS, with the styling and prejudice surrounding them, as well as those who died due to illness.”

Constantly incoming proposals for the change and addition of a classic six -lane flag. Call Discussions and even ridicule. How found out Our colleagues from Reuters, the Progress Pride flag with the addition of yellow and blue stripes are also the result of irony over activists, developing, in their opinion, more and more inclusive versions.

May 22 Canadian journalist Kim Siver Published On Twitter, a photograph of his home, painted in the colors of the classic rainbow flag. In response, the @ProjectdDroc account reminded Siver, that the six -lane flag is outdated and “does not imply the representation of some people, such as color”, and called for the use of the version developed by Kuazar. In turn, @aryanfaggot user Fleaned This answer: his tweet fully repeats the @Projectdroc recording, but in it the word “color” is replaced by “Ukrainians”. A flag with yellow and blue stripes added to it is also attached to tweet.

Not all users realized that @aryanfaggot comment was ironic in nature. Even him Published On Twitter, a member of the House of US Representatives Marjori Taylor Green. The representative of the Republican Party accompanied the image with the signature “Do the Nazis know about this in the Ukrainian army?” User @aryanfaggot pretty fast wrote A lot Twitov, in which he was surprised that his comic picture was taken seriously and became so popular.

We were not able to find a comment about the appearance of the colors of the Ukrainian flag on the flag of LGBT, which some Internet users attributed to Alexei Armovich. We could not find the relevant entries in either the social networks of the politician, or in his speeches in the media and on YouTube. Judging by the TGSTAT service, the source of this quote is a post in the Mercury Telegram channel (72,000 subscribers), appearing In the afternoon of May 26.

Reuters draws attention to the fact that although gay parades are held in Ukraine, their participants and activists more recently Passed attacks. As reported Pew Research Center and Ukrainian human rights LGBT Center "Our world", the level of homophobia in the country remains quite high. Ukrainian The constitution, like Russian, defines marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman.

Addition from 03/06/2022. This material is devoted to the analysis of statements related to a specific image that appeared on May 22 as a joke, but later it began to be used outside the satirical context. At the same time, the organizers of the LGBT+parade, which will be held in Dublin on June 25, really Added On the flag of the event, triangles of yellow and blue. At the same time, neither on the official website Dublin Lgbtq+ Pride, nor in it social networks It is not clear that such a decision is related to the support of Ukraine. This "updated" rainbow flag on April 29 appeared in the publication of a member of the government of Ireland Roderick O'Gorman on Instagram*; In his post, the minister talked about types of assistance for LGBT refugees from Ukraine. Nevertheless, in this case, we are talking about the flag of one specific pride, which will be held in Dublin, and not the flag of the entire LGBT community, as the authors of the statements we have verified. In this regard, we retain the verdict “Satyric news”, made according to the results of the analysis.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

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