President Joe Biden hosted an LGBTQ+ celebration on the South Lawn outside the White House on Saturday afternoon. The Pride Month event had been due to take place on Thursday but was postponed because of the wildfire smog impacting DC at the time.
Thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals, including lawmakers and activists, attended. Entertainment was provided by Betty Who.
Biden has already posted several tweets marking Pride Month. This continued over the weekend. One highlighted new actions his administration is taking to support LGBTQ+ rights.
Another one specifically pledged support to “transgender children”.
Both tweets received backlash from opponents of LGBTQ+ rights. However, what really sent them over the edge was the way the White House chose to hang its flags. It hung a prominent rainbow flag between two US flags.
President Biden posted a photo of the flag. He said, “Today, the People’s House – your house – sends a clear message to the country and to the world. America is a nation of pride.”
Biden’s tweet has had almost 200,000 likes. However, among the 56k replies, many were right-wing snowflakes outraged at what they viewed as an insult.
Why isn’t the US flag 🇺🇸 in the center?
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) June 11, 2023
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson accused Biden of placing the Stars and Stripes in a “subservient” position. Many others claimed it broke a code of violations relating to the display of the US flag.
No code violations were broken
On Twitter, accusations of code violations were quickly slapped down by others. A US flag was flying above the White House, higher than the three flags overlooking the South Lawn. Therefore no violations were broken. Don’t believe anyone who says otherwise. Click on the photo below for a wider shot.
Anyway, besides the sounds of MAGA heads exploding, the event passed without incident and a pleasant time was had by all. Check out a few photos below.
Mister P
Poor right wingers. They have no ideas but to pick on people.
Unfortunately for us, that presents a danger to many Americans.
abfab
If this is a win or lose game to them (it is), we will win. Actually, we always win.
CatholicXXX
It’s no longer “gay agenda” or “gay flag” now they’re calling it “trans agenda” or “trans flag.”
abfab
Sister Mary Elephant…….SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UP! Thank you.
dbmcvey
Hey Catholic, why don’t you deal with the SA by the priests before you worry about all this.
RIGay
I am so over this faux outrage by an extreme minority of loud people.
abfab
Toxic Twisted GOPTROLLS…I’d say we have at least a dozen lukin ’round these parts. Under curious and ever changing handles.
abfab
This bears repeating………..over and over and over again, my friends. And thank you President Biden!
You are loved.
You are heard.
You are understood.
You belong.
ShaverC
Pride month is ridiculous, but figures Biden jumps at the chance to pander.
RoyM
What’s ridiculous is a rabidly anti-LGBTQ, hate-driven, right-wing extremist commenting on Queerty.
ZzBomb
Politicians pander, it’s what they do. At least he’s pandering to peaceful people and not whiny little shit heads who try to over throw the gov’t b/c they’re toddlers who can’t lose gracefully. Sit down and stfu
abfab
@bama/shaver/london and other assorted wackjobs……BRACE YOURSELVES! YOUR FAVORITE EATERY DONE GONE AN RUINED EVERYTHING ON YAS.
“Bigotry was the blue plate special”: How Cracker Barrel went from anti-gay to angering the GOP
The chain restaurant used to ban workers who “failed to demonstrate normal heterosexual values”
Late last week, the Texas Family Project, an organization “fighting to make Texas families the most powerful force in Austin by building a political cavalry of pro-family forces,” sent out a tweet to its followers letting them know that “Cracker Barrel has fallen.”
“A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob,” they wrote, before posting a screenshot of a webpage from Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s website.
dbmcvey
Pride month is not ridiculous.
What’s ridiculous is supporting and flacking for an anti-gay politician with fascistic tendencies like Shaverc does.
Bosch
Figures that you would call it “pandering” when the president of the US takes a stand against homophobia.
Why don’t you complain about homophobes with same enthusiasm? I know the answer, I’m just wondering if you know.
ShaverC
Bosch, Please enlighten me.
abfab
I know for sure that Bosch has better things to do, shitter.
toddlicious
ShaverC why are you here? No one cares for your bigoted remarks. You sound a fool…
abfab
monty-shaver-obama-SRD-london-wino-catholic………………etc. Pushing back will never work for you.
Or the right wing hicks you support.
If you can’t Celebrate Diversity I suggest you move out of the country. You may think you’re Patriots, but you ain’t brave and you ain’t free. Your thoughts and your words say it all. You’re dictators and cowards. Period.
ShaverC
toddlicious, I’m just waiting for Bosch to tell me what my problem is.
abfab
Some of us have day jobs. Call your shrink, shave.
DBMC
Hey Shaver, you can wait for Bosch to say it but, your problem is that you’re a shill for anti-gay Republican politicians coming on an LGBTQ+ website trying to gaslight people who aren’t buying it.
RoyM
Conservatives would happily see the Confederate flag or a Nazi flag hung from the White House but a Pride flag gives them the vapors. What rotten human beings conservatives are.
abfab
And many of them choose to bring the rotteness here! Yawn city. Although, they do Q a favor by drumming up the amount of clicks and comments on any given day. However, debating them is so unfair……the IQ levels are in the negetive ranges. Their talking points, STALE FOX NEWS REGURGITATIONS.
cheks
Is June “officially” pride month? To me it seems like pride has become like St. Patrick’s day. An excuse for a party and for companies to sell easily marketable merchandise. It’s has seriously become a “everyone is gay at pride!” kind of thing.
However, I also know that in small towns in conservative areas, their “big” pride events is the one event everyone will try to make it to. And it’s great for community building. So for that, I’m definitely glad it exists.
Mister P
Pride is meant to be inclusive and for everyone. So no one feels shame for who they are therefore post “ridiculous “ comments.
Kangol2
Whatever else you may think of them, President Biden and VP Harris should be commended strongly for holding this public, celebratory event now, at a time when LGBTQ people are under nonstop rhetorical, social and legislative assault. They also should be praised for taking seriously the threats against LGBTQ people.
We’re facing “Don’t Say Gay” laws, attempts to overturn same-sex marriage, book bans, the relentless smearing of LGBTQ people and drag queens as “groomers,” the slew of laws targeted trans people, especially trans children and their families, and so on. There have been violent threats against Pride celebrations from right-wing extremist groups this year, just like last year.
Rather than anti-LGBTQ attitudes or indifference, both of which we got from the past administration under Don the Con, the president has stood up for LGBTQ people repeatedly. And it matters. A lot.
Fahd
With the Republicans hell bent on turning the LGBTQ community into scapegoats and boogeymen (as they did with the ¨Communists¨ in the 1950s), its reassuring to see the White House send these messages of love and acceptance.
I hope any member of the community that is planning to vote Republican in 2024 has the resources available to get their head examined.
abfab
They’ve all been ”groomed”. There’s no hope for them, Fahd.
SDR94103
that is NOT the rainbow flag. That is the blm flag brought to you by corporations. Stop injecting race into the already perfect GAY RAINBOW FLAG recognized around the world for GAY PRIDE and POWER. Not the race flag.
Bosch
Be appreciative of the fact that we live in a time when corporations try to capitalise on tolerance and acceptance instead of homophobia and racism.
LeBlevsez
And the music! Make sure you have the already perfect Pat Boone and Anita Bryant spinning on your Victrola. Not that godless rock-and-roll race music!
abfab
Oh dear! You almost called it a DRAG RACE! Gentleman! Start your engines!
Corporations? Lucy you got som ‘splaining to do.
inbama
@SDR94103
The symbolism of the misnamed “Progress Flag” is perfect – BLM and the Child-Transing Industry forming a wedge to split the Rainbow and drive the actual supporters of gay and lesbian rights from the very organizations they founded.
That leaves any of us speaking against the denial of gay and lesbian kids from being denied therapy to help them live whole and healthy in their own bodies under assault from homophobes like abfab.
So be it. Never give in to ghouls like her.
Bosch
@inbama
You’ve been told before that children don’t transition. The whole purpose of puberty blockers is to postpone any kind of transition until the child is an adult. If you become an adult, and you still want to transition, then that is your adult decision.
monty clift
@SDR94103, I agree. They could’ve put up the real rainbow flag and not this eyesore BTQ identity garbage.
ShaverC
Bosch, Puberty blockers are NOT reversible. Anyone who would do that to a child should be arrested for abuse. The kid does not just resume or start puberty once off it, the blockers harm the body.
abfab
Just arrested Shaver? I say put them before a firing squad or better yet, force them to read your bullshit.
dbmcvey
Shaver does not know what he’s talking about, but that doesn’t stop him.
ShaverC
Please read up on “puberty blockers”. They are very dangerous and you’re ok with giving them to kids? Jazz Jennings had major problems with getting a vaginoplasty because of the puberty blockers. They stunt a child’s bodily development, and can cause irreparable harm. For people that are all about “the science” read up on it.
inbama
@Bosch
That you keep repeating The Big Lie will never make it true.
How any decent person can keep touting the use of blockers after what has happened to Puberty-Blocker Poster Girl Jazz Jennings shows is beyond me and countless others. The only people who “come back” after being subjected to puberty blockers are de-transitioners after their bodies and lives have been ruined.
And it’s not just the complications blockers create for vaginoplasty.
“There’s going to be a price,” said Dr. Sundeep Khosla, who leads a bone research lab at the Mayo Clinic. “And the price is probably going to be some deficit in skeletal mass.”
Shame on you.
DBMC
Shaver, please stop shilling for anti-gay politicians.
Mister P
Read, learn and enlighten yourself.
abfab
That ship has sailed. GOP TROLLS don’t believe in edumikayshun, Elmer!
SUPREME
right-wingers will just have to take a pill and get over it.
Kangol2
Right-wingers and racists like SDR!
abfab
Can we choose the Pill?
MrGoldman
Well, Rose Montoya had to post pictures of herself topless on the Whitehouse lawn. Now the right-wingers have fantastic imagery for their followers to hate queer people. The story is blowing up today.
Nice work idiots!
abfab
Oh hush up, you old fool! They have tons and tons and tons of stuff to hang on us. What the hell is one more photo? You’re so common. We read this sort of sick reasoning every day here.
DBMC
What media do you watch? I’ve never heard of this person.
Jimmynj
Right wing people prove over and over again what bigots they are.