Doug PollardFlying the Flag for Pride
January 31st 2009 10:48
The Gay Australian National Flag
What a lot of fuss over flags!
The tabloids love to create a fuss over the Australian flag. Lately they’ve been beating up a lot of nonsense about bogans who wrap themselves in the national flag and go Leb bashing around Sydney beachside suburbs.
In Melbourne they’ve unearthed a troglodyte working for Port Philip city council who objects to the Rainbow Flag being flown over the town hall in honour of the gay pride march this Sunday.
Apparently he thinks it gives the impression they’re all poufs working there.
Actually, although the Rainbow Flag is used as a symbol of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning community (I hope I didn’t leave anyone out), it was chosen because it symbolises diversity.
We’re not all the same. We are sexually diverse, but also nationally, racially, religiously, handedly, heightly, weightly, whatever-you-gotly diverse - and the rainbow symbolises diversity.
Just as white light is made up of a spectrum of coloured lights, so the human race is made up of a spectrum of different kinds of folk.
Whereas the Aussie flag – like the Union flag before it – tends to get hijacked by white race extremists.
Personally I don’t mind if both flags fly at the same time – so long as during Pride Week, the Aussie flag goes pink.
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