One year later and a one-hour drive from my house trailer, members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party killed five participants, including another Duke graduate, in an anti-Klan rally. Terrified that my identity would be unearthed and terrified by the hatefulness of the imagery. The crowd watching chanted "U-S-A" as the flag was folded. The South Carolina state government held a ceremony to take down the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds July 10. Intrepid, if not naive, a few nights later I witnessed a cross-burning and a display of Confederate flags in support of white supremacy and nationalism. Among the many things he didn’t know about his tenant was that I am gay and Jewish. Before long, the husband confided to me that he was a Ku Klux Klan member and invited me to a rally. I rented a mobile home from a middle-aged white couple who took a shine to me. In 1978, I graduated from Duke University and took a summer job with a county health department in rural North Carolina. However, there’s an inherent problem in your logic: The history and symbolism of the flags could not be more different the responses they evoke - or provoke - even more disparate. Or, why not just split the difference and fly both (which is how I interpret “grin and bear it”). Both the Confederate and rainbow flags are offensive to some, therefore, the two flags should be treated the same. All of which takes us directly to questions of civility and history. On a white supremacist Web site, the accused gunman, Dylann Roof, was pictured holding a Confederate flag. The recent controversy has been mainly about the display of the Confederate flag not in private venues, but on public buildings and grounds such as the South Carolina statehouse, in the wake of the June killings at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.
WHY IS THE RAINBOW THE GAY FLAG FREE
No one is saying that you can’t fly the Confederate flag, or any flag of your choosing - that’s your right to free expression. Who gets to decide which flag is allowed to fly and which ones can’t? I say grin and bear it. It has taken various incarnations, but the rainbow has continued to clearly represent the LGBTQ community for decades.Dear Civilities: It sure seems like hypocrisy to say we can’t fly the Rebel flag because it offends people, when you fly the gay flag, which certainly offends lots of people. The rainbow became iconic in the LGBTQ community in the late 1970s as a symbol of diversity and inclusion. Most recently, a soccer team in Italy has adopted a 6-year-old’s idea for a jersey, including a rainbow.
of Hawaii football player shows off his gloves.
Since 2013 they have again been know as the “Rainbow Warriors,” usually donning green and white but occasionally looking like this. Until 2000, the school’s athletics teams was known as the “Rainbow Warriors.” Yet after hiring sports uber-agent Leigh Steinberg as a marketing consultant and June Jones as football coach, the school dropped the rainbow (to be clear, Steinberg has talked many times about his support for gay athletes). of Hawaii has had a checkered history with the rainbow.
To be sure, they’re not the only ones who have used a rainbow on their uniforms.
The jerseys were unmistakable because of the rainbow that adorned them: The Denver Nuggets’ jersey rocked a rainbow for over a decade, and they keep bringing it back. The uniform was worn by the team from 1981 to 1993, (likely accidentally) mirroring the height of the AIDS crisis for the gay community. Yet none are likely as iconic as the Denver Nuggets uniforms, which featured the Denver skyline with a rainbow backdrop. There have been various teams over the years to utilize a rainbow in their uniforms and jerseys. This week, Outsports is joining SB Nation in celebrating as well as deriding the sports jerseys, uniforms and kits that have made us proud, embarrassed and given us reasons to wonder, “what on earth were you thinking?” Today, co-founder Cyd Zeigler reviews the teams that embraced the rainbow.