Originally Posted by chuckd
If you want to wear flair go work at TGI Fridays. I don't care if you're gay. No one does. I don't think the flag pin is appropriate in this situation. What is the point. The guy was gay. Who cares. Why does he (and so many other gay people) feel it necessary to advertise? I don't walk around with a pin that says I'm straight. Keep your preferences to yourself.
Then I guess you'd be surprised to know that you don't have to be gay to wear the flag pin, you don't have to have AIDS to wear a red ribbon, you don't have to be female or have breast cancer to wear a pink ribbon, etc. Some people are supportive, others proud. I realize this is a separate issue from whether the pins are appropriate in the first place. But, I don't think it means the guy is "advertising."