PolitiFact - Internet-created flag for pedophiles is not connected to LGBTQ+ community

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Some social media users are aghast at a supposed pride flag for pedophiles. But research suggests this flag was created as an online prank.

Laurel Powell, a spokesperson for the, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group with more than 3 million members and supporters, said any claim that the movement to support LGBTQ+ rights is associated with this flag or its supposed meaning is wrong.

"This is categorically false," Powell said,"and disinformation of this kind is part and parcel of ongoing attempts to demonize LGBTQ+ people by claiming associations that do not exist."on its website. The MAP flag is not represented. Laura McGinnis, spokesperson for PFlag, another large LGBTQ+ advocacy organization with more than 325,000 members and supporters, said pedophilia and hebephila are"disordered sexual preferences."

"They're not part of the LGBTQ+ community," McGinnis said. She said anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has a long history of leveling accusations of pedophilia against queer people. She characterized such claims as"vile,""dehumanizing," and intended to"strip LGBTQ+ people of their humanity." "That connection of pedophilia and hebephilia to LGBTQ+ people is longstanding," she said."It's old, it's tired, and it's incorrect."knew of any major LGBTQ+ organization that had recognized such a flag or any legitimate advocacy for the inclusion of MAPs in the LGBTQ+ community.

 

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