University institutions across America deliver the essentials of their professions to doctors, lawyers, engineers and many more.

No one wants a doctor who can’t diagnose, a lawyer who fumbles with the statutes or an engineer who designs a bridge that fails.

But at the University of Colorado in Boulder, one of the nation’s best-known “party” schools, there are some REALLY important facts for students to learn: All 19 “Pride” flags and what they mean.

There’s the original, created on the request of the late homosexual San Francisco city official Harvey Milk. There’s the “rainbow,” which was the subject of a recent controversy in major league baseball when a player added to the rainbow image on a team cap marking “Pride” month in June the Bible verse in Genesis where God uses the rainbow to promise that he will not again destroy the earth with a flood.

There’s a flag that includes “communities of color.” An image marking those lost in the HIV-AIDS crisis.

One recognizes “progress” for trans, intersex and “black and brown.”

There’s a special one promoting transgenderism, the unscientific ideology that men can turn into women and vice versa. (They cannot.)

Nonbinary? There’s a flag for that. “Two-spirit?” Of course. “Genderfluid?” You’re covered.

And bisexual and pansexual and asexual and intersex and polyamory and more.

Multiple fights have erupted over the use or non-use of the imaging. A park ranger in Yosemite was fired after flying a “trans” flag at the park, and the court fight continues.

Some cities mandate them; others forbid them. Joe Biden was a huge fan of the imagery, decking out the publicly owned White House to promote his personal ideology and agenda.

The images are called “free speech” but commentator Piers Morgan once demanded of a “Pride” activist, “Where’s my straight flag?”

A report from Campus Reform explains the Boulder school instructs students on the flags and their significance at a Center for Cultural Connections & Community.

There, the school instructs how polyamory is “otherwise known as consensual nonmonogamy, is the practice of having multiple intimate relationships or desiring to have multiple intimate relationships.”

For that flag, for example, the University of Colorado states, “The blue represents openness and honesty of people involved in the relationship. Pi was chosen due to its nature as an infinite numeral. The Pi signifies the infinite options of partners available to polyamorous people.”

Boulder’s school also has a dedicated promotion of “Pride Month” and funds a “Pride Team.”

“Campus Reform has previously reported that colleges and universities often promote ‘Pride’ flags to students,” the report said.

Boston University reversed course on a policy to remove “Pride” flags from campus buildings in April. The university had previously adopted a content-neutral policy regarding “outward-facing signage.” In June 2024, Binghamton University raised the “Progress Pride Flag” to celebrate the “Summer of Pride.” “I ask that we think about what each of us can do in order to create a diverse community, an inclusive community, one that’s caring and empathetic, one that celebrates our spectrum of talents and identities—a community that we can truly be proud to be a part of,” a university administrator said at the event. Washington State University celebrated “Pride Month” in 2023 by selling “Pride” stickers for LGBTQ identities, including “Aromantic,” “Asexual,” “Bisexual,” “Demigender,” “Demisexual,” and “Gender Fluid.”

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.