Laurence Fox burns LGBTQ+ bunting in his garden during Pride Month

Moment Laurence Fox burns ‘LGBTQ+’ bunting in his garden on Father’s Day as he launches furious rant that ‘the new cult flag has nothing to do with the original Pride movement’

• Fox, 45, set bunting on fire as he cricised ‘disgusting, vile, child sacrificial flag’
• Video of stunt uploaded to Twitter on Father’s Day yesterday provoked outrage

Political activist Laurence Fox has sparked outrage after he attempted to burn LGBTQ+  bunting in his back garden in an astonishing stunt during Pride Month.

The former actor and Reclaim Party leader used a lighter at his home to set the display on fire which appeared to have already been covered in flammable fluid.

The 45-year-old captioned the video, posted just after 7pm on Father’s Day: ‘My friend brought me some child mutilation bunting. It got the treatment it deserved.’

Fox was wearing T-shirt with a picture of a rainbow above the phrase ‘Comes Before A Fall’ – in a strong hint that the message he was giving is ‘Pride Comes Before A Fall’.

In the video, he said: ‘The most holy month of child mutilation. This is what I think of your disgusting, vile, child sacrificial flag. 

‘Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Pride, which isn’t Pride. It’s just a celebration of the mutilation of children. And you can shove it.’

The video was posted as Fox continues to prepare to run in the race to replace Boris Johnson as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in West London.

Political activist Laurence Fox attempts to burn LGBT bunting in his back garden yesterday

Fox claims in the video posted yesterday that the flag is a ‘disgusting, vile, child sacrificial flag’

The flag being burned was the Progress Pride flag, designed by artist Daniel Quasar in 2018. It is a variation on the original Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978.

What is the Progress Pride flag and why has it caused controversy? 

The flag being burned by Laurence Fox was the Progress Pride flag, designed by artist Daniel Quasar in 2018. 

It is a variation on the original Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978.

Progress Pride flag by artist Daniel Quasar

The Progress Pride flag has black, brown, pink, pale blue and white stripes. The flag aims to represent marginalised LGBTQ+ people of colour, as well as trans people and those living with HIV/AIDS.

The flag has caused division within LGBTQ+ communities – with some saying Baker’s original Pride flag didn’t need to be changed, but others including Quasar arguing that it was necessary to represent marginalised communities.

An updated version of the Progress Pride flag was created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK in 2021 which had a yellow triangle and purple circle to represent intersex people.

The Progress Pride flag has black, brown, pink, pale blue and white stripes which aim to represent marginalised LGBTQ+ people of colour, as well as trans people and those living with HIV/AIDS.

The flag has caused division within LGBTQ+ communities – with some saying Baker’s original Pride flag didn’t need to be changed, but others including Quasar arguing that it was necessary to represent marginalised communities.

An updated version of the Progress Pride flag was created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK in 2021 which had a yellow triangle and purple circle to represent intersex people.

Fox’s video generated nearly 10,000 likes and 2,000 retweets in the first 16 hours after it was uploaded – as well as 2,000 comments, some of which criticised Fox for being a ‘sad man’ and ‘attention seeking’.

Fox then posted a second clip this morning on Twitter which was entitled: ‘Apparently I’m trending. Huge thanks to you all for the honour.’

In this second video, he said: ‘That flag, the Progressive [sic] Pride flag, is nothing to do with the original Pride flag which was to represent hard fought for gay and lesbian rights, which everybody would support.

‘And also in this country, we have a flag that unites everyone – gay, straight, lesbian, white, black, yellow, red, green, thin and fat. It’s called the Union Jack and it represents us all, and it represents secular liberal democracy.

‘What that cult flag represents is the mutilation of healthy children’s tissues and convincing them of a lie which is a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy. That is the foundation of language – the difference between man and woman.

‘Now the woke Left may want to try and mess with these terms, but sane people know that girls can’t become boys and boys can’t become girls, and sane people find it abhorrent that a doctor or anyone or a parent would allow their child to be mutilated in any way.

The flag being burned was the Progress Pride flag, designed by Daniel Quasar (file image)

‘So you can carry on attacking me all you like. It makes zero difference to me because I live in the truth. So if you’ve got a problem with me burning a flag which celebrates the mutilation of children, then maybe you have a problem yourself.’

It comes after Fox returned to Twitter unrepentant in June after being suspended for posting a swastika made from LGBT flags.

His acting career has taken a backseat in recent years while he has made a name as a political activist, but he appeared in the Hunter Biden movie My Son Hunter last year.

Fox has also been outspoken about Covid vaccines, and was told by a doctor ‘I sometimes wonder why you exist’ during a heated debate on GB News in April.

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