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Reasons we fly a pride flag:

Leaving the house this morning, there was a kid, maybe grade 5, no rain gear, sitting on our front step.

I was obviously a little startled

Me: uhm...hi? Can I help you?

Kid: oh! No, I'm just taking a break my mom told me that if I ever need to ask an adult for help I should look for a house with a rainbow flag because that means it's safe. I don't need help, just a dry spot for calling my friend to bring my rain coat.

And then his friend rocked up with his coat and off they went.

LeRoiMiracle 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin 🥺

Agnieszka R. Turczyńska 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin Oh. Thank you for sharing 🥰

@technicolourpenguin awwww 🥺🥺

Laurent Bercot 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin Shout out to the mom. Parenting done right.

Martin Vermeer FCD 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin Cc: @e_urq 😁

@technicolourpenguin what a cute story!

Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎1d ago

@technicolourpenguin @DevlinLeathercraft This is a great story. Meanwhile, I'm sure some conservative has taught their children exactly the opposite. Sad for them.

Maya Granade 1d ago

@mlanger @technicolourpenguin @DevlinLeathercraft if by opposite you mean, "nowhere is safe and everyone is it to get you" yes.

Yea pride flags get a special call out, but yards full of american flags or religious paraphanalia aren't a signifiers of being supportive of community in the same way.

Devlin Leathercraft 1d ago

@kevingranade @mlanger @technicolourpenguin I come from a military family but took down my US flag shortly after this administration took power. Not only are their policies offensive and not representative of the freedoms my family has fought for but they also consider their soldiers expendable and are quietly reducing their benefits: health, education and otherwise.

Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎1d ago

@kevingranade @technicolourpenguin @DevlinLeathercraft No, by the opposite message I think a lot of conservatives are telling their kids that rainbow flags, etc. are at the homes of bad people. I don't really want to get into more detail here because what they teach their kids is so repulsive to me.

To me, pride flags and Black Lives Matter flags and things like that mark the homes of smart, progressive, thinking people who are interested in helping others.

@kevingranade @mlanger @technicolourpenguin @DevlinLeathercraft

They're a threat

@technicolourpenguin In a similar way my son (22) said that if he ever had kids, he would teach them to trust long-haired men in particular. Because those would likely be metalheads, and thus the kindest and most trustworthy people. I think that logic is a bit flawed, but the observation has some merit.

purple: licenced to sticky plaster 1d ago

@hopfgeist @technicolourpenguin in a not entirely dissimilar vein when I've found myself in an unknown area and in need of some form of refuge I've been known to seek out craft beer rooms.

Pubs and bars can be unsafe, cafés weirdly judgemental, but craft beer nerds? My limited sampling has had a 100% success rate for them being quirky people willing to offer a seat or a charger to a quirky person, even one like me who doesn't drink and doesn't have a clue what they are talking about.

Judy Anderson 1d ago

@hopfgeist @technicolourpenguin

Once when I was about 15, I was walking in the rain about 2 miles. A businessman stopped and offered a ride, I turned him down. A hippie in a van stopped, and I accepted. (Both men were white.)

My mom read me the riot act about accepting the ride at all. I don't remember if I told her about declining the first ride.

Martin, Regulus Tithonium 1d ago

@nosrednayduj @hopfgeist @technicolourpenguin Not the largest, but certainly one of the reasons I almost always have vivid purple hair in what can only be described as a clown haircut, is that other than that I 100% look like the kind of white dude parents teach kids to avoid.

Cyril Brulebois 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin @zhenech It's so powerfully rainy over there that my eyes just got a little wet too…

Fedi's bowlingball 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin i need to buy and hang a prideflag on my balcony!

MamaMagby 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin That is amazingly sweet! Proud of that kid's mom especially.

Joscelyn Transpiring 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin honestly, hard agree. Best chance for a safe home or adult

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DerGinko 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin aaawww🥺

Marion 🦋☀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

@technicolourpenguin
Goosebumps... 🥹
Thank you for sharing!

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@technicolourpenguin

I love this. I've never been much of one for flags as there isn't much space in a downtown home but I will have to make space now.

Never thought about this. Thank you.

Kevin Russell 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin

BOOM.

Thank you.

@technicolourpenguin reminds me of this tale - https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/1c44ihm/find_a_goth_if_youre_in_trouble/

and it's a hard agree from me on both counts.

Ruxbat! 🍉🦇1d ago

@technicolourpenguin that's awesome. thank you for sharing

Deep Breath; Start Again 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin
This is beautiful. I want to live in this kind of world.

Netzblockierer 1d ago

@technicolourpenguin such a nice story…

@technicolourpenguin, I've heard of grading of eggs, but… grading of children?

Roadskater, Ph.D.17h ago

@lp0_on_fire @technicolourpenguin Grading of adults.

@technicolourpenguin 100% Pride flags are a good way to find the cool people, but also to signal to others you're safe to be yourself around. It's why this one always tries has some kind of pride thing somewhere on its person. Has had lots of nice interactions because of it.

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Deborah Preuss, pcc 20h ago

@technicolourpenguin @chu wow, this makes me wish, even more, that I had a porch to fly a pride flag on. ❤

@deborahh Think outside of the box, a window or balcony is often just fine to show one ;)

Deborah Preuss, pcc 18h ago

@dreua I've done that, on the 2nd floor. But this story of being a welcoming porch for the neigbourhood particularly attracts me.

Michael Gurski 18h ago

@technicolourpenguin maybe I should take the leap from just my RGB lights in the evening and test the waters with a flag. Seems like there's a damned good return on that.

@technicolourpenguin Nice

Bruno Roost 13h ago

@[email protected] I think this video fits in quite well here.

https://youtu.be/UVepoXddTW4?is=abdSLsT9lw7CxFS3

#Pride #RainbowFlag #Trygg

TRYGG - Oslo Pride 2025

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@technicolourpenguin thank you for posting that, it's just made me tear up in the best way

cherieherrjones 5h ago

@technicolourpenguin I love his mom