[Tagbert]

I said part of the reason for association was a shared experience of ostracism. Another is being outside the mainstream in a sexual and gender sense.

In recent years, there have been some efforts to tie racial justice into the LGBT identity, but that has been controversial as there is less alignment around issues. Black and brown bands were added to the rainbow flag as part of this, and that was also controversial. The feeling was that that flag was not originally racially focused.