r/vexillology • u/kbhina • May 29 '25

Identify Help identify this flag in Germany

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Found this flag cut out sticker in the small German town of Irrel. Can someone identify this flag?

Irrel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NgVkz7ow3FFwUmX3A?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

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u/kvd_ May 29 '25

it's a "german pride flag" used by the AfD as a way to mock LGBT people. not sure why they added prussia but it's probably just more german nationalism. here's an AfD poster doing the same thing:

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u/Coteoki May 29 '25

The same party that has a lesbian as leader?

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u/paixlemagne United Nations • European Union May 29 '25

Yes. Although she insists she isn't, she just so happens to live with a woman for fifteen years and raise two children with her.

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u/SomeOneOutThere-1234 Greece • Laser Kiwi May 29 '25

I think that she admits that she’s a lesbian, although as she says “She’s not queer”. The fuck she’s trying to say? This doesn’t make sense

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u/imrduckington May 29 '25

The fuck she’s trying to say

It's a more "respectful" way to say "I might like women but I'm not a f*ggot", you saw similar things with Ernst Rohm and other Nazi gays

Basically for fascists, "queer" has a specific connotation as "effeminate, progressive, degenerate, weak, artistic, and mentally ill", or specifically for lesbians "masculanized, dominant, progressive, and a man hating feminist"

What she's trying to do is separate herself from that image by claiming that while she's into women, she is not part of the queer community her party attacks

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u/PiotrekDG European Union May 29 '25

How about "a hypocrite"?

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u/imrduckington May 29 '25

Yes, but there's a bit more to it than that.

Famously, Ernst Rohm and other Nazi gays thought they were "masculine" for their love of men compared to the "feminine" queers of Berlin

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u/Ok-Push9899 May 29 '25

It’s perfectly accurate that she would describe herself as not part of the queer community. Does she move in that community, or is she embraced by that community, or does she WANT to be embraced by that community? Nope.

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u/Terentatek666 May 29 '25

Meanwhile her wife is an active part of the community and an activist for LGBTQ+ rights in Switzerland. She's also born in Sri Lanka.

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u/zizou00 May 30 '25

Good to see "never ask a nationalist the nationality of their wife" extends to the gay members of their dumb movement too. How inclusive of them.

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u/PiotrekDG European Union May 29 '25

Her party is also against same-sex couple adoption but they themselves adopted two children. She's also an immigrant in Switzerland... not to mention her Sri Lankan partner.

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u/Jzadek Scotland May 30 '25

it means she hates trans people

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u/SomeOneOutThere-1234 Greece • Laser Kiwi May 30 '25

Of course and she means that. Not just trans people. Every single LGBTQIA+ person is no good for her, only she appears to be “one of the good ones” in her eyes.

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u/SneakyBadAss May 30 '25

Queer doesn't have the same meaning as across the pond. It was commonly used and still is used as a slur against homosexuals. I heard new gen is trying to reclaim it, but so far no results.