{"id":9678,"date":"2020-06-28T22:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2020-06-28T22:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:17:22","slug":"gay-flags-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/28\/gay-flags-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Flags Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of June, <strong>Big Mama Masters <\/strong>showed me a story on the cover of the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> about the <strong><em>Unity Flag <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 which, for those of you who don\u2019t know, is a more inclusive <strong><em>Pride <\/em><\/strong>flag.&nbsp; It\u2019s the traditional rainbow flag, but with a triangle on the left side in black, brown, light blue, pink and white, representing people of color as well as trans individuals.&nbsp; Well, Big Mama thought this was \u201cso pretty\u201d and had such a great message, she wanted me to go online and order her a big one for the front of the house.&nbsp; I admit, I rolled my eyes \u2013 I\u2019m not a flag kinda guy (you should have seen my eyes when the people across the street put up a flagpole for their US flag, illuminated 24\/7 by klieg lights).&nbsp; Here\u2019s the interesting part \u2013 today, I noticed that the people down the street (who I don\u2019t believe have a gay person in their household) have installed the <em>Unity Flag <\/em>on their porch.<\/p>\n<p>You know where you don\u2019t expect to see any kind of <em>Pride <\/em>flag?&nbsp; On a federal government building during the reign of <em>El Presidente<\/em>.&nbsp; And yet, one overseas embassy had one in front.&nbsp; Oh, did I mention it was the <em>US Embassy <\/em>in Moscow?&nbsp; Yes, there was the traditional <em>Pride <\/em>flag, flying proudly within spitting distance of <strong>Vladimir Putin <\/strong>\u2013 and you know he spat when he saw it.&nbsp; Not only did the US Ambassador to Russia, <strong>John Sullivan<\/strong>, sanction the flag, he also posted a photo of it on the embassy\u2019s official Instagram page, saying (in Russian), \u201cToday, the US Embassy in Russia honors the LGBTI Pride Flag during the #PrideFlagDay celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of June, Big Mama Masters showed me a story on the cover of the Boston Globe about the Unity Flag \u2013 which, for those of you who don\u2019t know, is a more inclusive Pride flag.&nbsp; It\u2019s the traditional rainbow flag, but with a triangle on the left side in black, brown, light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9687,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}