When flown outside businesses, or placed in shop windows, it tells LGBT people they can relax, and feel safe to do what others’ take for granted: to hold hands or kiss their partners, to rent a hotel room together, to book a table for valentines day, to demonstrate their love without hate. Today, the flag is flown as a sign of inclusion and welcome. Rainbow flags have been used in many places over the centuries: in the German Peasants’ War in the 16th century, as a symbol of the Cooperative movement as a symbol of peace, especially in Italy to represent the Tawantin Suyu, or Inca territory, mainly in Peru and Bolivia by some Druze communities in the Middle east by the Jewish Autonomous Oblast to represent the International Order of Rainbow for Girls since the early 1920s and as a symbol of gay pride and LGBT social movements since the 1970s.” Wikipedia “ Rainbow flags tend to be used as a sign of a new era, of hope, or of social change.
How does educating about LGBT experience help an understanding of diversity as a whole?
