"It doesn't matter what colour the poppy is it's just a really good thing to raise money for the Royal British Legion. There is lots of false information being put online and it is clearly designed to whip up hate. "There's a lot of fake and manufactured outrage online not just about LGBT+ people, in particular the trans community. "This perhaps shows a wider problem that people still have an issue with LGBTQ+ people and their contribution. We spoke to Daniel Browne, a co-ordinator for Warwickshire Pride who said: "Clearly the rainbow poppy has nothing to do with the LGBT community, but would it matter if it did? I am sure there were LGBT people that lost their lives in the war. Nobody wanted this, stop finding an excuse to ridicule us for something we didn’t want in the first place." The post got over 6,000 shares.
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"Stop finding an excuse to ridicule us for something we didn’t want in the first place"Ī public Facebook post from Alice Kimbley read: "I’m gay and I could not care less about an LGBT poppy mate. Now we know there are no rainbow or LGBT+ poppies being created by the Royal British Legion, what has been the reaction of the LGBT+ community? "There's so much disinformation right now – that the LGBT+ community is trying to hijack poppies – which is so far removed from the reality." He said: "The rainbow poppy drama is basically an annual tradition at this point. We spoke to Pink News journalist Josh Milton who has been following the story. 'Vaikona' designs and makes every poppy with 100% of the proceeds going to the Royal British Legion. It then went on to say: "I have sold thousands of variations of these poppy badges over several years and everyone seems to be very happy with them." "I HAVE ONLY ONE AGENDA AND THAT IS TO MAKE MONEY FOR A CHARITY." Such was the barrage of abuse, vaikona's ebay page now reads: "PLEASE STOP THE VILE AND RUDE MESSAGES THAT YOU ARE SENDING ME! "I have been selling for about 10 years." We spoke to 'vaikona', who said: "I do it to raise funds for the poppy appeal and there was no malice intended. Since listing the badge, the ebay seller, under the username 'vaikona', has been inundated with a barrage of "vile and rude messages" and forced to close the listing. The badge is not officially sold by the Royal British Legion - the charity behind the traditional red poppy. Nowhere did the product listing state it had any link to the LGBT+ community, and it seems that it had no other intention other than to be "rainbow and glittery". The screen shot was of a small scale seller on ebay selling poppies of different colours. In short, the answer is no, the LGBT+ poppy is not a thing. Red poppies have been a symbol of remembrance for years (Image: Getty) Get some respect!" So is there an LGBT+ rainbow poppy?
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Soldiers who died and fought for us have one MINUTE a year. "Pride has a whole month to raise awareness. User said: "I’m not in anyway homophobic, but this is getting beyond! the RED poppy is in memory of ALL soldiers during the war. She assumed like a lot of people that because it’s rainbow it’s gay."įurther comment was made about how appropriate the alleged LGBT+ poppy was. The person (SINGULAR) selling them NEVER SAID that they’re LGBT. The rainbow poppy has only been seen being sold in ONE place and that’s on eBay. Twitter user said: "Just researched to see if this was actually true and can’t find any viable source to suggest that this is true?"Īnother user added: "Funny everyone immediately sided without the facts. It's disrespectful to change the colour simple as."īut some were questioning its origins. These poppies were red black and grean and that's that. Each poppy that grew was like a soldiers life growing into a poppy. Twitter user said: "When the fighting stopped, poppies grew in the churned up mess of the battlefields. For example, new shoes (with absolutely no signs of wear) that are no longer in their original box fall into this category.Twitter user wrote on November 4: "Why am I seeing rainbow poppies being made, not to be rude but there is a whole month dedicated to the LGBT+ community, can the heroes that fought for our country have the ONE day to be remembered without it being about sexuality.
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