Do the preparation task first. Then watch the video and do the exercises.
Transcript
Sacha Coward: The rainbow flag is a really important symbol for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. It has changed a lot since it was originally invented. When you see the rainbow flag, that tends to symbolise queer people, no matter who they are, how they define or who they love.
Reeta Loi: This is the new lesbian flag. I think it's amazing that there are ways for us to feel that we can self-identify. I think, for lesbians, we are marginalised within the broader queer community. And I think it's great that a flag like this exists, so that we know that there are spaces that are inclusive and that we can participate in or belong to.
Amelia Abrahams: This is the bisexual flag. It was designed by Michael Page in 1998, and the point of it was to make bisexuality more recognisable or visible within the LGBTQ+ community and society more broadly.
The trans flag. It represents people who have a different gender identity to the one they were born with.
Non-binary. For people who don't identify exclusively as a man or woman.
The progress flag.
Sacha Coward: This flag here is one of the more contemporary rainbow flags. It also includes a brown and black strip as well as part of the trans flag.
Reeta Loi: This kind of does the job best for me. And I think, potentially, the flags are always going to keep evolving. So, who knows? Maybe we won't need a flag at some point. That would be my ideal.
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From the video, I learned that the LGBTQ+ community identifies with different types of flags with colorful stripes, and these flags represent queer people. However, I still believe that God created only two genders on Earth. That said, we should respect everyone’s race, gender, or beliefs.
Hello Sihem2022,
Respect is very important and thank you for saying this. The world would be a much nicer place if everyone remembered this!
We generally distinguish between gender and biological sex, so while biological sex is overwhelmingly divided into two categories, gender is much more complex and more of a spectrum than a dichotomy. It's a fascinating and very complex area.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
I´ve learned today the meaning of the flag. I didn´t know the all meaning of each parts. New for me was also the new flag, which I find very conterporary.
After watching this video, I think that there is still a long way to go to actually achieve the biggest objective of all, that is to be able to self-identify with the human race and its community as a whole.
I think, if we are all respectable no mind who we are and who we love, there's non need to create subgroups or really categories in which we can identify. Love or at least respect for all human rights would be enough.
What I learned from this video is that everyone in the world with any gender should be respectable.
We can learn from this video that the human’s life has different forms and all these need to be respected and tolerated from the others.
During years the society, in particular in democratic states, is having a development process; more and more people shout and fight for their rights because the actual period allows vindications about the equality (racial, salary, sexual, religious, environmental eccetera).
These movements aren’t a “trend”, so everyone do it because the trend said that; like I said, nowadays there-re the conditions to claim what was forbidden int the past, due to the reason that the society wasn’t opened behind civil rights.
What I learned from this activity and video, is that we all have feelings, and the greatest way to live is happy, with no hate, racism and loving us each other.
from this video, I learned that everyone has the right to be acknowledged for their existence. This flag isn't just a symbol, indirectly it gives them power and confidence about how they identify him/her self, also communicates that they can participate in or belong in this society
I have a question, why does the progress flag has a black and brown stripe? Does it belong to another group that was not mentioned?