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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8681190" data-attributes="member: 58172">I appreciate the forumer responses. The LGBTQ+ community is complex issue and important to navigate as well as possible. As a voice in the wider conversation, some of my perspectives are here.Being proud of who one is, and being proud of who an other is, come from human dignity.Whether the world is functional or dysfunctional, each human must make an effort to feel pride about ones own ways of being.If an identity group who share similar qualities and outlooks, encounters hatespeak and oppression, and worse, it helps to remind oneself who one is and what one is standing for, and to find companionship among others who share a similar identity and a similar struggle.LGBTQIA+ is an alliance of various identity groups. Various members bring diverse perspectives to this alliance. Q stands  for "Queer" and includes everyone in this alliance, including LGB and T. The alliance evolves from the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual and Transgender communities, who remain prominent members today, but expands to include other identity communtities as well. The initials call out Intersex a prominent member among Queers. The A can mean different things. In my experience the A stands for Ally. These Allies are the cisgender heterosexual who strongly support Queer humans, are often family members. These allies are members of the wider spectrum of human possibilities.LGBTQIA+ are deeply human features, across cultures, across history, are necessary parts of human, and exist since before human history. In my view, it is anti-human to hatespeak against or harm LGBTQIA+, and any who do do hate make themselves less human.The Allies are part of a better world, a functional world, where hateful dysfunctionalities can heal, where every human can be oneself successfully, and where each human figures out ways to coexist constructively with other humans who are different who come from different perspectives.The Rainbow Flag − also called Pride Flag and LGBTQ+ flag − arose during the 1970s. Its creator, Gilbert Baker, designed to signify "the dawn of a new gay consciousness and freedom". The flag is to remind people what a better world looks like. Explicitly, the flag stands for:• Sex• Life• Healing• Sunlight• Nature• Magic• Serenity• SpiritThe flag is positive in nature. The flag is dignity, spirituality, physicality, even fun. Its adherents strive for healing and holism. A better world that can welcome each human, is possible. Even inevitable. Even miraculously inevitable.By the way, these eight qualities are also pertinent fey elf qualities.Within a couple years, Baker modified this flag to the six stripes representing the colors of rainbow. By extension, Sex and Life together emphasize a healthy sex life. And Magic and Serenity together emphasize holistic action, sometimes understood as art. Across the decades, this rainbow comes to represent the full spectrum of human possibilities. The flag continues to signify dignity, spirituality, physicality, even fun.</blockquote>

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