British MassResistance leader forces major museum to remove pride flag.

UK’s pro-LGBT state policy yields to our activist!

Another story of how one person can make a difference.

June 22, 2026

On June 10 the museum was flying the "pride flag" (left). By the weekend it had been replaced with the St. Albans city flag!

This is yet another example of what one principled activist can make happen!

In our previous post we described how a Kansas MassResistance activist pushed the leftist Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library to cancel their “Pride Month” displays and all other LGBT-related events during June.

Our British allies are achieving similar success!

Earlier this year, Adrian Ruffhead became our new UK MassResistance chapter leader, continuing the courageous work started by David Skinner several years ago. (See our recent report on David’s stunning win in court.)

Sign at an MR meeting in Salisbury, England in 2017.

In Adrian’s hometown just north of London, the St. Albans Museum normally flies the Union Jack on its main roof. But every June, it has replaced it with the LGBT “pride” flag. This year Adrian decided to do something about it!

People in Britain tend to be mealy-mouthed and overly polite when it comes to confronting their public officials on hot-button culture war issues. But starting with David Skinner, bold UK MassResistance activists like Adrian have been breaking that mold.

The St. Albans Museum normally flies the British Union Jack national flag - as it should!

Adrian first went to the museum and spoke with a staffer about removing the flag. He was polite but very descriptive and firm. The staffer definitely got the message. But Adrian realized he needed to contact the museum’s Visitor Services Manager directly.

On June 10 he contacted her, and sent her the kind of strongly worded email she probably rarely receives from regular citizens. Among other things, Adrian made the following points:

Who authorized the flying of the gay pride flag? Was it an instruction that came from the City Council or someone on the museum’s staff? The pride flag is controversial and is a political statement which the museum should not be drawn into.

The local Muslim community has put out a document about how to navigate pride events as a warning to their families, particularly their children who can be influenced by the gay agenda.

That is not the only faith group that finds gay pride controversial as well as offensive. As far as I am aware, all the major worldwide faith groups stress heteronormativity and heterosexual marriage. So it seems strange that a public building like the museum should fly a flag that is a symbol of the opposite.

You need to understand that just because religious leaders try to endorse the gay agenda does not mean that their followers do. Most of them object to it.

The flag stands for a kind of lecturing, hectoring position – whereby the majority heterosexual community needs to be lectured into a silent acceptance of the gay lifestyle.

There is a much darker side than the media and pro-gay pressure groups give. There are huge problems with sexually transmitted diseases due to the homosexual lifestyle. Even some local pro-gay charities have the up to date STI figures; you look them up. Gay pride marches are also not the nice, carnival type events that the media likes to give in its sanitized images.

Flying pride flags on public buildings may also have the effect of promoting a lifestyle to children and minors that their parents do not want them to adopt. There is a big problem with schools doing this, parents are very unhappy about the pro-gay teaching in schools and the museum should avoid following this.

The flag should certainly not be paid out of the taxes of the people, or museum funds.

This clearly had a strong effect. On the weekend, Adrian saw that the flag had been replaced with the flag for the city of St, Albans. It's a yellow St Andrew's cross on a blue background. As we write this, the city flag is still flying over the museum (without the “pride” flag).

This is a great victory! The locals love it.

And more coming from our re-energized UK MR chapter

Adrian said he will be working with other activists to hold a spirited protest of the London Pride parade in July. (We were there back in 2017.) And he will be lobbying Parliament to defeat their second attempt to ban reparative therapy across the country. (We also helped stop that the first time in 2023.)

Adrian has also worked closely with our friend Lisa Nolland, a pro-family activist based in Bristol and leader of the “Marriage, Sex, and Culture Group,” a nationwide organization that informs Britons on how to fight the LGBT agenda and defend the family. He has also been attending various public rallies where he’s attracted others to join our growing UK chapter.