Oxford Union Rejects Call to Fly LGBT Flag During Pride Month
The Oxford Union has sparked student uproar after secretly voting down a motion to mandate flying the LGBT flag during every Pride month. The Telegraph has the story.
Anita Okunde, the president of the union, made the request after an order requiring the flag to be raised in June was mysteriously removed from the student-run standing committee’s rule book.
The order would make it compulsory for “every union president to fly an LGBT flag clearly and visibly from the courtyard throughout June every year”.
It would also give the president the discretion to waive the requirement “in the event of the death of the Sovereign, or at such other time when public buildings fly their flags at half mast”.
In minutes of the meeting, seen by the Telegraph, Ms Okunde claimed it was not “a new standing order change” and that it had been mysteriously removed from the committee’s rule book.
But her motion was rejected by a vote of seven to four in a secret ballot on May 5th, with critics fearing it would open a “Pandora’s box” of demands for other flags to be flown.
In a meeting at which opposition voices were cautious not to be cancelled, Samy Medjdoub, the third elected member of the committee from Keble College, said that by passing the motion any other individual may make the same request for any other cause and described the scenario as “opening the floodgates”. …
The ruling has ignited a fierce online backlash from students, with one writing that the change was “confirmation that the union is as bad as everyone thinks it is”.
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Meanwhile, here in the EU, more bureaucratic garbage and some interesting research findings regarding longevity, health status and sexual orientation; ”The European Commission has embarked on a phoney “consultation” for its LGBT strategy for 2026-2030. Under the guise of collecting evidence, the process more likely serves to rubber stamp predetermined outcomes. In a less ideologically-orientated society, a consultation process would have indeed meant getting feedback from the populace on a controversial topic before a policy is drawn up, so that the politicians responsible would be able to carefully weigh the evidence and develop a strategy that addresses actual needs. But this is not the case in the EU anno 2025. For its LGBT policy, the European Commission has opted for an ideology-based approach. The consultation starts from the premise that alternative sexual orientations are unfairly discriminated against, and asks for evidence to this effect. This used to be called circular reasoning, not conducive to a functioning democratic society or good government. The way in which the European Commission frames the discourse on sexual orientation is as questionable as the consultation process itself. LGBTIQ is a social construct. It is neither an organisation nor a coherent category, but a neo-Marxist linguistic… Read more »
Not to mention “Queers for Palestine” meeting Hamas. That would be very interesting…
In order to show their full and unwavering commitment to LGBT causes, I suggest that their representatives should attempt to fly the flag from the nearest mosque.
Doing so would demonstrate the power of our vibrant multicultural communities.
Speaking of mosques, although gay men are supposedly thrown off buildings in Islamic countries, there’s obviously a demand for trans people wherever this is. Maybe Afghanistan. They even give them ‘moob jobs’, by the looks of things. So I guess men having sex with men so long as they identify as women is all good, then🤔;
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1921735328907325921
How does flying a flag help anyone?
Hopefully LGB people no longer face discrimination or prejudice from anything but an ignorant, tiny minority of people. Does anyone seriously think these idiots will see a pride flag and suddenly realise the error of their ways?
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I don’t really give a flying flag so long as the following is resolved: if the objective is the objective, what is the objective and if this objective can be reached how will attainment be known? If the objective cannot be reached in this way then perhaps flying flags is not the best method.
“confirmation that the union is as bad as everyone thinks it is”.
Good, then let the whole shyte ton of What is Oxford university eat itself!
Time to shut down the universities and send them to toil in the fields.