{"id":8854,"date":"2022-10-24T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:29:00","slug":"what-the-progressive-pride-flag-means-to-lvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2022\/10\/24\/what-the-progressive-pride-flag-means-to-lvc\/","title":{"rendered":"What the progressive pride flag means to LVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Charlotte Duffield &#8217;24, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LVC raised the progressive pride flag on Wednesday, Sept. 28, to celebrate and represent the diversity of the community&#8217;s sexuality, attraction and gender<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The progressive pride flag was created by Daniel Quasar in 2018. The trans flag stripes and marginalized community stripes were moved to the flag&#8217;s hoist, where they formed a new arrow shape. The arrow points to the right to indicate forward movement while remaining on the left edge to emphasize the fact that much progress remains to be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo me, pride itself means to be free in your identity and self,\u201d Cashana Cooper, a third-year business administration major, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ariana Genna attended the flag raising ceremony.  The senior political science and social justice major spoke about how she was glad that LVC held this ceremony to acknowledge and support the LGBTQ+ community on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis flag shows that hatred will not be tolerated at LVC,\u201d Genna said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creation of the progressive pride flag specifically focuses on problems facing queer trans people of color in the community. The shift towards the more inclusive Pride Progress symbol is one that everyone at LVC should fully support and encourage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Charlotte Duffield &#8217;24, staff writer LVC raised the progressive pride flag on Wednesday, Sept. 28, to celebrate and represent the diversity of the community&#8217;s sexuality, attraction and gender.\u00a0 The progressive pride flag was created <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2022\/10\/24\/what-the-progressive-pride-flag-means-to-lvc\/\" title=\"What the progressive pride flag means to LVC\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}