Having lived in Brighton for a number of years, I can confirm that the most commonly positioned symbol is indeed the rainbow flag. In fact, now that my office is based just off Soho, I frequently see the same thing there.
The simple multicoloured emblem has been adopted by the gay community to denote that the establishment or people bearing it cater for those of a homosexual alignment, and that they are welcome to come in and if needs be, come out.
Again, in Brighton and Soho (and possibly a number of other locations I'm not aware of) the gay community rally together annually to form the Gay Pride festival which boasts the rainbow flag in abundance, spreading awareness of the homosexual way of life.
For Day 363 of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge, I'm wearing the next tee in line from the IdiotGenius marathon which supports a counter-cause to the rainbow usage in an argument I'm not sure anyone is actually having.
This IdiotGenius tee is in place for the niche market of those disgruntled by the excessive use of the rainbow by gay folk, and aims to spread the message "Heterosexuals For Refracted Light - We Love Rainbows Too".
This T-shirt is doing one of two things - either it's exacerbating the popular controversy by going after the homosexual stigma from a very different and dramatically tenuous direction just to get a rise, or it is ironically highlighting however overblown the current controversy is by throwing a very trivial design based quandary into the mix.
What do you think - Idiot or Genius?
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