The organization featured a straight pride flag in its official website. Described as "a response to the 'identity politics' of the left", the event attracted several hundred participants and thousands of counter-protesters, who vastly outnumbered participants of the parade. In 2019, the American organization Super Happy Fun America led a straight pride parade in Boston, in the United States, in August of the same year.
Man holding a poster with the straight pride flag used by Super Happy Fun America in advance of the 2019 Boston Straight Pride Parade However, Alexey Lisovenko, the then deputy head of United Russia in Moscow, stated that the design of the flag had been done with the approval of creators of La Manif pour tous ' flag. The French organization against same-sex marriage La Manif pour tous accused the party of plagiarism, as the flag it used was highly similar to the one used by United Russia, with the only differences being that the French organization's flag has two children and not three.
One portrays the family and text in red in a white background while other two display the symbols in white on a red or blue field. It has three variants, each representing one of the three colors of the flag of Russia. It was created as a response to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States earlier on the same year. It consists of a woman, a man and their three children with a hashtag saying #НастоящаяCемья ("#RealFamily") below. In 2015, the Russian political party United Russia, of which the then President of Russia Vladimir Putin was then part of, introduced a straight pride flag to be displayed on the Peter and Fevronia Day (also known as the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness). It originated in the late 2000s, but its exact origin is unknown. The rainbow portion of the flag sometimes takes the form of an "A", representing the word "allies", or an inverted "V". It combines the black and white straight flag with the rainbow LGBT flag.
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