![]() ![]() It was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June 1978.įive months later, Dan White walked into Harvey Milk’s office and assassinated him right after killing Mayor George Moscone. He came up with the rainbow flag, its stripes a more colorful echo of the stars and stripes, a more achieved version of the United States. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, had asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a flag to represent all that wonderful synonym for American freedom. That’s the symbolism behind the Pride flag. In a sense, you cannot possibly get more diverse than under the big LGBTQ tent. It is just as diverse ethnically, racially, and religiously. There are no such monoliths, least of all in the LGBTQ world. I hesitate to call it a single community. The acronym reflects the immense variations implied by the freedom of sexual orientation. ![]() If you wonder what two-spirited means, just remember Little Horse, the “boy who didn’t want to fight the Pawnee” in Little Big Man, back when the United States could muster a little tolerance from mayhem. It now refers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Two-Spirited (2S), and Asexual-LGBTQQIP2SA. In Canada, the acronym is at risk of breaking anti-sprawl ordinances. The acronym seems to add a letter every year. LGBTQ culture-as opposite to cancel culture as it gets-is boundlessly diverse. This is what we’re doing to a group of people that should be the poster child for civil liberties and human rights. Violent right-wing customers have destroyed store displays and threatened workers. Pride month merchandise is displayed at the front of a Target store in Hackensack, N.J. It’s open season on them everywhere, starting with schools.Īs of this writing, nearly 500 bills have been introduced or passed this year alone, 10 of them in Florida. Except, of course, when the target is LGBTQ people. Post-racial fantasies aside, there’s still plenty of discrimination against minorities-if anything, it’s on a sharp rise, with Black Americans, Asians, and Jews at the top of the target list-but it often requires a whole set of coded signs and the scabby language of dog whistles, at least in the workplace, in schools, in public places. The rainbow flag seems to wave in one variation or another wherever people take pride in celebrating those who are the target of sweeping naked discriminatory legislation across the country. We celebrate cultures that were not always respected or given their due, and in many cases still aren’t. Why shouldn’t it? We have months that celebrate Black history, Hispanic heritage, Arab heritage, Jewish American Heritage, and Women’s history. I've compiled some synonyms you can use instead of Maintain on your resume.I wasn’t aware until recently that Target had an LGBTQ-themed section to commemorate Pride Month, which began on June 1. Using different words to describe something makes your resume more gripping for the recruiter, increasing its effectiveness. This helps you avoid overusing the same words in your resume using synonyms. For example, instead of saying, 'Maintained all customer listings and sales on a database,' say that you 'Streamlined the company's business practices by developing a customer database and tracking sales.' To make your resume sound spontaneous, consider revising using other words that will give the same idea but are more specific. Additionally, in your resume, use the past tense of 'maintain' ('maintained') unless you're discussing a current role. If you use it more than once on your resume, you may come across as a little too robotic. ![]() 'Maintain' is truly a great word, but it should be used sparingly. Recruiters like knowing that candidates have this skill because it means they'll be efficient and can be trusted to follow through on work. 'Maintain' implies that you have the skills to keep things up and running. Similarly, if you worked as an accountant, you would have experience maintaining spreadsheets and other data. If you worked as a manager at a company, you could maintain your team's projects skillfully. ![]()
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