My Gay Life

Gay Pride flags have been making news in the past couple of days. First the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank is flying the rainbow flag beneath the American Flag. Of course since this is Virginia which has a reputation currently of not being gay friendly, it is no surprise that some are objecting to this.

State Republican Robert Marshall somehow thinks this flag is going to cause another recession.

homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy.”

But the bank is not backing down with their COO Sally Green earlier this week stating:

We are flying the pride flag as an example of our commitment to the values of acceptance and inclusion,”

In other news, the Space Needle has decided not to fly the rainbow flag again this year. Some are raising a big storm and making Change.org petitions about this. But the decision is in line with the Space Needle’s policies and I think we should thank them for flying it the time they did.

Spokeswoman Mary Bacarella explained the decision with the following:

As you should know, we don’t make a habit of flying flags on top of the Space Needle. In fact, we make an effort not to fly any flags on a recurring basis.

If that statement is really true, I cannot blame the Space Needle for not flying the flag again. And I don’t think anyone should, as making a big fuss about this will cause others to be leery about flying the flag in a major public display again too.

Hat Tip to Sea Turtle on Flickr for the picture.