Kisses from 6,000 people create massive Pride flag at Heathrow Airport

Kisses from 6,000 people create massive Pride flag at Heathrow Airport

Mangalore Today News Network

July 06, 2018: Heathrow has commissioned an art piece that celebrates Pride in London by recreating the iconic rainbow flag with the help of 6,000 passengers’ kisses.

 

The flag will fly above Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal until the end of July.

The unveiling of the flag is part of a week-long Pride celebration, with Heathrow showing its support for the LGBT+ community and the colourful spirit of the event.

 

The piece of ‘kissing art’ – created with kisses rather than traditional paintbrush strokes – has been kissed by international flyers as well as Brits waiting to go on holiday.

Each passenger placed their own individual ‘kiss’ onto the crowd-sourced artwork, to show their support for LGBT+ rights.

The flag started life in Terminal 2 on July 1 in departures, with passengers choosing to plant a smacker in red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple lipstick, onto the blank canvas.

With 84,303 passengers passing through the terminal, it didn’t take long for the flag to be completed.

The final few kisses were placed by staff as the flag was taken through the airport.

Carol Hui, Chief of Staff at Heathrow Airport said: ‘We’ve been getting into the spirit of Pride right across the airport to show our support for London and the rest of the UK, where diversity and equality are so strongly celebrated and equally valued across our employees and passengers alike.

‘Many of the LGBT+ community travel into London, to celebrate this incredible festival so we wanted to give them a warm welcome by, quite literally, flying the flag for Pride.’

The Heathrow Proud Network will be taking part in the Pride in London parade on Saturday, July 7.