Activist groupPlanting Peacehas declare space LGBT - friendly after launching a Pride fleur-de-lis on a high-pitched height balloon .
The pin was launch on August 17 from Milwaukee , and it reached an height of 34 kilometre ( 21.1 miles ) in a 3 - hour - long trip to the stratosphere , all filmed by a GoPro tv camera .
Although the gesture is strictly symbolic , the mathematical group hope this is a whole tone to create the largest safe space potential for members of the LGBTQ biotic community .
“ It was an purity to send the first Pride flag into space , and it provided a marvellous opportunity to show that Planting Peace will not stop fighting for LGBTQ rightfulness until all sexual and gender minority experience full , fundamental right in every corner of the cosmos , ” Aaron Jackson , President of the United States of Planting Peace , told IFLScience .
“ The backdrop of space give us a arresting , inspiring and passive canvas for our message of hope to our LGBTQ kin . I would love for LGBTQ tiddler who are contend to see this , and look up to the stars and call up that the universe shines brilliantly for them , and they are not alone . ”
Planting Peace is a global non - profit organization that wreak in many different areas be after campaigns to deworm children , go orphanages , and working in rainforest conservation . Their work in support of LGBTQ someone is also well known . They ownEquality House , a rainbow - colored edifice directly opposite the Westboro Baptist Church hate group . In March this class , Planting Peace alsodeclared Antarticathe first LGBTQ - friendly continent .
We are mindful of only oneLGBT spaceman , Sally Ride , who was the first American woman in space and stay the youngest ever American astronaut to go into field .
As of August , 72 countries as well as five sub - national jurisdiction havelaws criminalizinghomosexuality . In 13 state , you could be killed just for loving someone of the same sex .
The situation for transgender and non - binary mass is often bad . Even in the US , not every state includes gender indistinguishability in their hate offense laws .
Some might view a Pride fleur-de-lis in quad to be an empty motion , but raising consciousness is important in the battle for adequate right across the world . And maybe it provides some solacement to think that out of our beautiful infinite universe , hate is only found in a minor portion of it .
