Upworthy · 8 hours ago

Dad Has Perfect and Colorful Response to Homophobic Neighbor

When a homophobic neighbor told a father that having two LGBTQ kids meant he "failed as a parent," the response was anything but retreat. Instead of escalating with words, he filled his backyard with parade-sized rainbow pride flags-a dozen of them. "No, saying things like that does," the video caption countered. When neighborhood rules tried to shut down the flags, he discovered his house sat two meters outside the map's jurisdiction, so even more flags went up. His children followed suit: when another neighbor blamed a trans flag for difficulty selling his house, the son replaced it with one covering the entire back wall. The family's colorful rebellion illustrates how pride flags remain what they've always been-a peaceful, artistic form of protest that somehow always manages to get the message across.