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Here at Autostraddle, planning content around Parade can be a bit of a conundrum. It’s frustrating to see mainstream outlets only elevate in-depth content about the LGBTQ+ collective and only really work with a bunch of gay and trans writers for one month out of the year, when we’re queer everywhere all the time. At the same hour, Pride is immensely important to us here at Autostraddle and to a lot of our readers. It’s an ongoing part of LGBTQ+ history and resistance. It’s a complex month, which even the most well intentioned mainstream media Lgbtq+ fest packages don’t always capture. We’ve arrive up with a really rad theme for our Lgbtq+ fest package this year that harnesses some of that complexity, and I can’t wait for it to be revealed to you.

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Pennsylvania high school boys wear flannel to celebrate "Anti-Gay Day"

In April, a band of Pennsylvania tall school boys wore matching flannel shirts and pasted hateful poster on gay students’ lockers. Some say they also drafted a "lynch list".

Intimidation of GSA students

As many as 100 students at Claysville’s McGuffey High School took part in the "Anti-Gay Day" a day after the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance held its Afternoon of Silence. "The Day of Silence was organized to trace attention to and condemn bulling against gay students. The homophobic students, mostly boys, wore flannel shirts and wrote "anti-gay" funeral crosses on the backs of their hands. The group stuck offensive posters on gay students’ lockers and intimidated Gay-Straight Alliance members and their supporters.
Other students said the group had a “lynch list”, although they did not say what exactly the list meant. McGuffey Superintendent Erica Kolat said officials include not seen the rumoured list, but that the school district was investigating the allegations.

Supportive activity of teacher and management

Teachers ran out of their classrooms and took the offensive posters down.
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That Gay Angel Wanted To Fuck That Flannel Wearing Repressed Man So Bad! And He Should’ve Been Able

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    To Flannel or Not to Flannel?

    I call to mind my first flannel. I stood in front of the dressing room mirror at Charlotte Russe, sizing up the pink and grey fabric swishing around my torso. This is it, I thought. Liberation. Identity festival. Acceptance. Finally, I could put my queerness on demonstrate for the planet to see. This was the commencement of a recent era in which everyone could get one look at me and recognize that I’m interested in girls. I could meet other queer women and talk about lgbtq+ things and shop at queer places. Right?

    Well no, not really. My existence hasn’t changed drastically since that fateful day two years ago. I haven’t cut my hair short. There are no edgy piercings anywhere on my body, not even on my ears. My footwear of choice is flats, not black combat boots. I think I’m not very good at existence a lesbian. And therein lies the problem.

    Even though I know it’s just a stereotype, I can’t shake the association between wearing flannel and gayness. It’s definitely a social construct (there’s nothing inherently queer about flannel), but I feel just a tad bit gayer in it. To me, wearing flannel is not just another article of clothing. It’s about breaking societal norms about sexuality and a