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— Mon, Apr 16, 2007 —
Yale's Fag Flag Desecrated
Perhaps it's not the liberal university we take it for?

yaleflag.jpg

"Yale Gluttony," read the flag on Yale's campus. Not "Yale Pride," as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Cooperative had started with.

The flag, hung on a gate in the university's Cross Campus to celebrate Pride Week, used duct tape to spell out the words. But by Saturday night, the duct tape had been reassembled to send a much different message.

The incident, of course, comes on the heels of last October's fracas during National Coming Out Day, where a fictional "National Organization to Gain Acceptance for Your Sins," or "NO GAYS," sent out an email calling homosexuality a sin. Thus far, the organization has yet to determine what course of action, if any, it will take.

Paint, instead of duct tape, might be a start.

Co-op gay pride flag vandalized [Yale Daily News]

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No. 1
Mattymatt says:

I know the vandals intended to make some kind of statement here ... but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Gay people are fat?

April 16, 2007 2:47 PM
No. 2
Jimmy says:

Um- the lesson here is- "Don't make your Pride flag out of duct tape." Wallets, yes, but the good Lord invented embroidery for a reason. Also- who has time to rearrange duct tape?

April 16, 2007 6:47 PM
No. 3
Ya!Lesbians Co-Coordinator says:

Gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins, like pride. The implication is that homosexual sex is gluttonous, which is especially offensive considering that the perpetrators are Catholic, and wasting sperm is worse than lust. Or you can just find the switch absurd and funny.

I was going to paint the entire flag when I was replacing a few of the letters from when they'd fallen off the previous year, but we're all actually pretty busy here at Yale and instead I decided to, oh, write a paper.

The Co-op is not pissing its pants the way it did in October because such behavior only fuels the pranksters, as do snarky articles such as this one.

The duct tape wasn't rearranged, obviously. They tore it off and wrote something new. And if you want to come embroider the flag, go right ahead - I have 2 exams tomorrow so I'm not going to.
Alyssa, Ya!Lesbians Coordinator

April 16, 2007 11:30 PM
No. 4
Ben says:

The Ya!Lesbians Co-Coordinator doesn't seem to have priorities in order...tests, please!

We need to find to offenders, tie'm up, send them to rehab, and make them apologize to Jesse Jackson! Or Rosie, or Sanjaya, or whoever.

April 17, 2007 1:02 AM
No. 5
Will says:

I am homophobic. I did it.

April 17, 2007 1:49 AM
No. 6
yalie says:


the pranksters would thoroughly enjoy being tied up.

April 17, 2007 3:01 AM

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