Let me close by making my position clear: whatever disagreement I have about the LGBT++++++++++++++++ flag at our official missions is irrelevant. To be blunt, #LoudAndProud has become really #Tiresome. So it's not as if it didn't/doesn't get exposure.įor a group of folks who spent the late 1990s/early 2000s telling everyone to get out of their bedrooms the LGBT++++++++++++++++++ community seems to be awfully caught up these days bragging about their bedroom exploits.
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The LGBT+++++++++++++++ flag is allowed & "flown"/presented in numerous other ways in embassies. So the Obama administration screws up an important tradition/statement and Trump's the evil meanie for restoring the better status quo? A totally manufactured "scandal." I'm calling B.S. Thus, I was floored when during the Obama years the Great Lightbringer's administration promoted the LGBT++++++++++++++++++ flag on the U.S. "Issues of the day" might divide, but at the end of the day we, as Americans, were united under the Stars & Stripes. The flag stood alone as the singular symbol of our national unity. flag you had to ask (but I never heard of a request being made and I don't remember anybody thinking it was a good idea to ask during my many years of embassy duty and embassy-related duty). If you wanted to fly something below the U.S. The old "rule of thumb" was that nothing (with the exception, perhaps, of the POW/MIA flag) would fly beneath the U.S.