This flag has nothing to do with the LGBTQ+ community, despite right-wing claims

[Jim Burton]

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/26/ ... explainer/

Content Warning: This article includes references to child sexual abuse and sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised.

If you’ve seen online images of the flag pictured below, chances whoever posted will claim it’s an LGBTQ+ Pride standard – but that’s a lie.

In reality, it represents a corner of the internet intent on appropriating LGBTQ+ culture, activism and rhetoric to promote paedophilia and child sexual abuse.

Created in 2018 by a Tumblr user whose account has since been deleted, the flag represents minor-attracted persons (MAPs), a fringe group intent on trying to make paedophilia acceptable by claiming it is a section of the LGBTQ+ umbrella.

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NOMAPs with any kind of public presence were quickly condemned, particularly by LGBTQ+ people who deplored the appropriation of queer culture in an effort to promote paedophilia.

However, the term became even more notorious in 2016, with right-wing groups on message boards, including 4chan, claiming that queer people widely supported NOMAPs, even alleging that the LGBTQ+ acronym was now “LGBTP,” with “P” standing for “pedosexual”.

[Jim Burton]

Am I also reading that a term coined in 2018 became "even more notorious in 2016"?!

[Officerkrupke]

So even non-offending MAPs get condemned as “promoting pedophilia and child sex abuse”??? There is truly no winning with antis.

[Not Forever]

I don’t have a high opinion of these people who act as spokespeople for an "LGBTQ+ community" that, if it were a real community, these newspapers shouldn’t have a say in. It should be the individual people speaking, not journalists.

And, in my opinion, the term "Queer" shouldn’t be owned by anyone. You look at the definition of Queer, see if "Pedophile" falls under it, and if it does, then pedophilia is Queer. End of story.

And if someone from the far right dares to say something, the response is a joke about pedophile priests or some right-wing politician arrested for it.

Honestly, I also find the comment quite irritating: "The patriarchy, this damn patriarchy," sprinkled with what seems like heterophobia. (Ignoring the fact that homosexuality is also being discussed.)

Seriously, for some reason it annoys me more than the far right… at least with them God gets dragged into it and I can give an awkward smile, but this is a tangle of rhetoric and prejudice where you really have to get your hands dirty to cut a few branches.