What part of being “openly gay” requires the display of gay pride colors? Colors that are very closely tied to the political movement?
"Flags are political symbols, borrowed from the vocabulary of nationalism, with similar overtones of citizenship, belonging, borders. They represent what the historian Benedict Anderson called “imagined communities”—self-constituted entities, united less by shared experiences than by shared beliefs in shared experiences. " www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/…/619273/
Even the designer of the flag considers it a political symbol.
"According to Gilbert Baker, the designer who, in 1978, first used a rainbow as a symbol for LGBT causes, “For the past almost 40 years, the rainbow flag has stood as a politically powerful, meaningful, and also aesthetically effective symbol.” letallplay.org/…/yes-fifa-lgbt-rainbow-is-politic…