'It's (Progress Pride Flag) not something that is controversial, it's something that is meant to be inclusive and welcoming and that's what the LGBTQ+ community is all about.'
Mysterious flyers asking to boycott Progress Pride Flag were posted around San Francisco's Castro District.People in San Francisco's Castro District are wondering who is putting up flyers asking the community to ban the Progress Pride Flag developed in 2018 by artist Daniel Quasar. It celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. The issue is creating a divide within that community.
"I think there is a long history of a certain segment of our community getting left behind or left out of the movement. Certainly, we are not a community that is immune to discrimination even in the Castro itself," explained LGBTQ+ activist Honey Mahogany.When Gilbert Baker created the Rainbow Flag in 1978 he called for a more inclusive society.
"Flags are about power, flags say something, you put a Rainbow Flag on your windshield, you're saying something," said Baker during a 2017 interview with ABC7's Lyanne Melendez only weeks before he died. There are many people who want the Rainbow Flag to continue being the symbol of diversity and inclusivity and not the Progress Pride Flag. As people look up in the Castro, they are discovering that someone, some time in the night, posted flyers, asking people to boycott the Progress Pride Flag because it has the colors of both the Trans Pride Flag and the Rainbow Flag and they claim someone is profiting from it.
"That flag has been the Baker flag for years and years and to incorporate it into a new design outside the community without the community's consent is daring," said Michael Walker who was visiting the Castro District which is a predominately gay neighborhood.
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