General

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Transgender Network Netherlands has here created a handy overview here.

We see the Progress flag as an enhancement of the flags that represent the multicolored nature of our community. Rightly, the Progress flag calls extra attention to, for example, black LGBT and queer persons, LGBT persons of color and transgender persons. Because due to a combination of forms of discrimination, they in particular often face disadvantage, even more so than others in our community. Moreover, they make an important contribution to our shared struggle for emancipation. It is beautiful how the Progress flag, with its five new colors in the form of a forward-pointing head of an arrow, puts the focus on progress, inclusion and intersectionality. The world is in constant change, this flag represents that change and the progress we must continue to strive for together.

We also raise the Progress flag. It hangs on our facade almost daily, along with, for example, the intersex flag, the transgender flag, the non-binary, the lesbian and bi+ flag, and the many other flags that represent our multicolored community. We feel it is important to raise the Progress flag because it highlights progress, inclusivity and intersectionality.

Inside-out is an important principle for the COC: communities, activists and individuals themselves determine what is needed for their own emancipation process and which images and symbols go with it. As far as we are concerned, this also applies to the use of flags. We are convinced that flags can and should co-exist. Especially since flags also inspire each other and then in turn lead to new versions in which multiple communities recognize themselves. In line with this, we also see, for example, a further development of the Progress flag to which the symbols of the intersex flag have been added. We think this is a great development and see the task of the COC primarily as making visible the diversity in flags that are important to our community.

You can read more about the use and meaning of the various flags here: https://www.oneworld.nl/lezen/seks-gender/lhbti/wie-bepaalt-welke-pride-vlag-wordt-gehesen/. COC also responded to this and explained our choices in it.

We refer for help to COC's Switchboard, our help and information service for the lhbti+ community. To do so, visit www.switchboard.nl for chat or phone opening hours or email to [email protected]

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