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On Saturday August 10th, a group of Stamford Pride members congregated on Main Street in front of the Old Town Hall to paint a rainbow crosswalk.
Not just any rainbow crosswalk, but an intersex-inclusive progress pride rainbow crosswalk.
The intersex-inclusive progress pride flag was designed in 2021 by Valentino Vecchietti.
It incorporates a field of yellow and a purple circle to symbolize intersex inclusion, which you can see reflected in the middle of the crosswalk below.
The yellow is meant to further represent an alternative to the blue and pink "male/female gender binary" while the circle symbolizes wholeness and expresses the need for "autonomy and integrity."
The progress pride flag is itself an amalgamation of queer flags and graphics.
In addition to the six-striped rainbow flag, the progress pride flag reflects "intersectional identities" with white, pink, blue, brown, and black stripes in the shape of a forward facing chevron. That part was introduced by queer non-binary activist Daniel Quasar in 2018.
The brown and black stripes were inspired by a flag introduced at the Philadelphia Pride celebration in 2017 to honor queer people of color. The black stripe also represents those lost during the AIDS crisis.
The white, pink, and blue stripes reference the transgender pride flag, playing off the traditional pink and blue for girls and boys, while white represents "those who operate outside of that cisgender binary".
The transgender references in the flag, in particular, have sparked controversy in the past.
When the White House hung the same intersex-inclusive progress pride flag last year, for example, critics blasted the decision, saying the flag represented "a cult of pedophilia infecting many institutions" and "an unwanted takeover of traditional gay symbolism" according to Fox News.
"The flag represents to us an ideology, a political statement of indoctrinating kids and trans kids and pushing kids to sterilize and mutilate themselves," Jaimee Michell, the founder of Gays Against Groomers, told Fox.
The Centinal chatted with a number of Stamford residents and several of the police officers who were required to manage the street closure during the crosswalk painting session.
Most people didn't understand what the crosswalk colors represented or why an "intersex inclusive" crosswalk was even necessary.
When we explained the symbolism of the colors and purple circle, most people just rolled their eyes at us.
A few people pointed out that the sidewalk made them feel excluded because it represented everyone except straight white people and those who are religious, especially Christians, Catholics and Muslims.
"So when I cross the street, now I'm supposed to be thinking about transgenderism?" asked a retiree named Robert. "And how some people don't know if they were born as male or female? Is that what your telling me?"
"Look, I'm 85-years-old and I use a walker. I barely have enough time to cross the street as it is. The last thing I need is to get distracted trying to figure out what the hell the colors mean when I just want to safely cross the street without getting hit by a car," said Robert, who is clearly fed up with "all of the Marxist nonsense" going on in Connecticut.
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