Man Defecates on NYC Restaurant Pride Flag, Pride Under Attack Everywhere

From NYC, to the UK, to Canada, California, and Colorado, marginalized people face irrational anger, violence.

Parents in the Toronto suburbs erupt in anger outside a school board meeting over discussions about flying the Pride flag this June. Police had to be called to prevent violence. Image via Michelle Mackey on Twitter.

Some of these spectators may argue that their objection wasn’t specifically to the Pride flag itself but to what they believe it stands for: in their minds, the corrupting of children who are allegedly too young to learn in school about the diversity of gender and sexuality.

To this odious notion we say: no one is too young to learn that gay, transgender and non binary people exist, just as no one is too young to learn that cisgender, heterosexual people exist. Queer people are not by their mere existence sexually explicit.

— The Toronto Star editorial board, responding to cries of “shame!” and “devil incarnate!” at a recent school board meeting in the Toronto suburbs.

One day last month on Manhattan’s trendy Upper West Side, a man walked into Buceo 95, a restaurant known for Barcelona tapas, LGBTQ inclusivity, and professional drag queens. The man dropped his pants, defecated on a rainbow flag, then wiped himself on a different rainbow flag before zipping up.

He walked out of the restaurant and out of sight.