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It’s June, when one can be forgiven for thinking we live in the United States of LGBTQIA2S+.

Old Glory is, at foremost, supplemented with, and sometimes supplanted by, the Pride Flag in all its varieties.

The flag, which has become more and more unsightly, is ubiquitous.

Its increasingly elaborate jumble of clashing stripes — whether seen shopping, at a ballgame or on US government buildings — is a reminder to obtain with the program and that the program is always changing. 

Team Biden draped what is acknowledged as the Progress Pride flag, with no fewer than 11 different colors, on the Light House between two American flags, giving it — no pun intended — pride of place. 

Flags aren’t trifling matters. People rally to them and survive and die for them.

The firing on the flag at Fort Sumter at the outset of the Civil War, for instance, had a galvanizing effect on the North.

“On forts and ships, from church-spires and flag-staffs, from colleges, hotels, storefronts and secret balconies, from general edifices, everywhere the old flag was flung out,” the historian George Preble writes, in a passage that cou