I don't know why my identity is excluded from that. "The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional. "They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive," she added.Īnother participant asked to leave because of a Jewish flag was Eleanor Shoshany-Anderson. the DC Dyke March is forbidding Jewish participants from carrying any flag or sign that includes the Star of David, which is universally recognized as a symbol of the. The parent contacted District Superintendent Dr. Laurel Grauer, a member of the Jewish LGBTQ organization A Wider Bridge, told the Windy City Times "it was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag." A parent complained after a Pride flag was seen inside a classroom within Bluffton Harrison Middle School.
The Chicago Dyke March is billed as an "anti-racist, anti-violent, volunteer-led, grassroots mobilization and celebration of dyke, queer, bisexual, and transgender resilience," according to its Twitter account. So Why Was I Kicked Out for Carrying a Jewish Pride Flag? The Chicago-based LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times quoted a Dyke March collective member as saying the rainbow flag with the Star of David in the middle "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Zionist." Southern Israeli city's first pride parade draws 3,500 participants knife-wielding Haredi man arrested The Kremlin's top flag expert has declared that the local flag of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region, similar to a pride flag, does not violate the country's ban on LGBT propaganda.
So why was I kicked out for carrying a Jewish Pride flag? The Chicago Dyke March preaches inclusion. Jewish groups demand apology after 'anti-Zionist' Chicago Dyke March justifies ban on Jewish pride flags Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday. Chicago LGBT march bans Jewish pride flags: 'They made people feel unsafe.' Pictured: A Jewish Pride flag Wikimedia Commons