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Diplomats say they are committing a ‘category one insurrection’ by marking Pride Month with rainbow displays Removed from bookmarks I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Since the US State Department began rejecting all embassy

requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during LGBT+ Pride Month this year, some diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy.

The facades of the US missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are partially hidden behind large rainbow flags, while the embassy in New Delhi is aglow in rainbow-coloured lights.

The website for the embassy in Santiago, Chile, shows a video of the chief diplomat raising a rainbow flag last month for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

The Vienna Embassy’s website features a photo of a rainbow flag flying below Old Glory on a mast jutting from the building, a statement by [...]



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