“They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive,” Laurel Grauer, a marcher who said she was harassed countless times because of the flag, told the Windy City Times. A Dyke March member told the publication that they were all asked to leave because the march was anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian. Jewish celebrants at Chicago‘s Dyke March Pride parade on Saturday were asked to leave after sporting Jewish LGBTQ Pride flags featuring the Star of David.Īccording to the Windy City Times, an LGTBQ newspaper, several people were asked to leave the 1,500-person march on Saturday because their flags “made people feel unsafe” by resembling the Israeli flag and appearing to support Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.Īll of the people asked to leave said they had been approached or harassed several times throughout the march.