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A fact from Ben Haith appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that on the Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith to celebrate freedom and the end of slavery in the United States, the nova (pictured) represents a new beginning for all?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact is dry but checks out, and hooks about more interesting items might be a bit undue (especially the gay foster home controversy). Needed to do some copyediting. Approve for June 19 — consider possibly integrating a "designed by Ben Haith" into the approved Juneteenth flag hook, which might be a vast improvement over this hook? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:55, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The subhead formerly titled "Pro-LGBT activism" actually described Haith's opposition to LGBT rights. I read the cited news articles and it was very clear that Haith did not engage in "Pro-LGBT activism" in 1985 -- rather, he opposed the rights of gay men to become foster parents. I changed the subhead in the article to accord with the facts. It might seem unexpected, but the man who designed (and copyrighted) the Juneteenth flag was not progressive with respect to sexual equality for gays and lesbians. This does not make him a bad person per se, because his objections may be religious in nature, or founded in personal experience, but it does indicate that a person who can be progressive in one area may not be progressive in all areas. The attempt to falsely re-cast Haith as having been pro-LGBT in 1985 was misguided. Catherineyronwode (talk) 03:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]