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Pride Flags in Schools: The Legal Issues

By John R. Vile, published on February 24, 2024

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Flags serve as essential symbols. The U.S. flag is especially prominent, and it remains common for school children to salute this flag, which is sometimes displayed next to the state flag.

West Virginia State Board of Teaching v. Barnette (1943) has clearly established that university students cannot be forced to salute the flag against their convictions.

Court decisions, most notably in Texas v. Johnson(1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990), have affirmed the right of protestors to blaze the flag in demonstration of governmental policies as an act of symbolic speech, with due regard for time, place, and manner restrictions. Tinker v. Des MoinesIndependent Community University District (1969) (in that case wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War) had previously extended some rights of symbolic speech to public college children.

Some flags, most notably a flag representing the Ku Klux Klan or the Confederate States of America, might represent or provoke violence, and many schools have banned such flags or other shots at symbolic intimidation. In Mel

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You might be familiar with the six-colored rainbow flag that is widely used to represent the LGBTQ+ community. But did you comprehend that this is a relatively novel rendition of the original? 

The original flag (shown here) was designed by activist, veteran, drag queen, and artist, Gilbert Baker, and made its debut at the San Francisco Gay and Female homosexual Freedom Day Pride in 1978. He was inspired by the Rolling Stones song She’s a Rainbow, and the 1960s hippies movement, assigning each shade with a specific meaning:

  • Pink: Sex (later removed)

  • Red: Life

  • Orange: Healing

  • Yellow: Sunlight

  • Green: Nature

  • Turquoise: Magic (later removed)

  • Indigo: Serenity

  • Violet: Spirit 

The evolution to the six-colored flag used today happened out of practicality. 

After the parade in 1978, demand for the Pride Flag increased, but the hot pink fabric was difficult to find in enormous quantities. Then, the Paramount Flag Organization started making a version out of the standard rainbow colors to support meet demand, and a seven-color celebration flag was the new norm.

A year later, the flag evolved once more…