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Eugene

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Sat Jun 8, 2019, 08:59 PM Jun 2019

Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite advisory from Washington

Source: Washington Post

Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite advisory from Washington

By Carol Morello June 8 at 6:40 PM

Since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during LGBTQ Pride Month this year, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy.

The facades of the U.S. missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are partially hidden behind large rainbow flags, while the embassy in New Delhi is aglow in rainbow colored lights. The website for the embassy in Santiago, Chile, shows a video of the chief diplomat raising a rainbow flag last month for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

The Vienna embassy’s website features a photo of a rainbow flag flying below Old Glory on a mast jutting from the building, a statement by Diplomats for Equality and a story about a professor lecturing on the visibility and growth of LGBT rights.

U.S. diplomats in Jerusalem joined a March for Pride and Tolerance, and several ambassadors have tweeted photos of themselves in local Pride parades or standing outside the embassies surrounded by employees holding up letters spelling PRIDE

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Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite advisory from Washington (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2019 OP
Hurray! Good for them. Hope more follow. 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 MLAA Jun 2019 #1
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