I can't speak for Russia and I can speak for Turkey and Middle East when I say that them boosting the Rainbow flag will create an unnecessary PR nightmare, even if their intentions are good. In Pakistan and the Middle East countries, LGBT are STILL criminalized and considered pedophiles, abominations of Allah. Now imagine they find a LGBT person being open of their identity, they will literally hunt and murder that person and be rewarded for it with the media spending 2 minutes condoning the news and the remaining 58 minutes calling the rise of LGBT in Pakistan a blight. And these are over trivial matters like beef between two sects or castes. There is a university in my city where riots, protests and shootings happen on campus as a regular occurrence. The law and officials are too scared to stop them because of their religious and political connections.
#Sooners gay pride meme full
These government funded universities are full of hooligans and thugs who carry guns in their cars like I carry my car papers.
In Pakistan, if you belong to any letter in the LGBT and growing alphabet, and are open about it, you're a LITERAL target of the religious party, and if you go to a public university, you are literally painting a giant target on your back. The only difference between a trans person and an LGBT person in Pakistan is that the trans person is allowed to marry.
The government has given them an identity and acknowledges their existence, but the police will never take a case of harassment, street crime, or any hostile crime committed toward a trans person as a serious case. A rainbow profile picture or any endorsement of the LGBT will only go well with 0.00000001% of the entire population of the country, with the remainder boycotting and protesting you.Īs of right now, Trans People are the Facebook equivalent of the SEEN meme. I had to tell them how it took almost 30+ years for trans people TO BARELY get recognized right now. I was working with them on a few communication key points and they asked me if they are allowed to use the pride flag in their office & on their socials. I am currently working with some Americans who are setting up a new business in my city. I know it sucks but no brand can force their regional offices to abide by blanket terms, especially something like the rainbow flag in countries where it's a literal death sentence to belong to any letter in the LGBT alphabet. Bethesda ME waiving a rainbow flag will only cause unnecessary trouble and they'll roll it back in a matter of hours.įrom public pressure when the religious parties put a fatwa for their heads. In Pakistan we still treat trans people like crap, and the same goes for a lot of middle east countries where gay people are thrown in prison or beaten. If Bethesda or any other brand forced their ME branch to change to the rainbow, you'd have people in that country boycott the brand.
The same is for the middle east, turkey and Russia.Īs bad as it is, these companies have to abide by religious and cultural laws too. If a single brand or business does open support of trans or LGBT rights, they'll have a fatwa declared on them.