Gosh, I feel you! 🥹🏳️🌈 and thank you for adding that link, Gina 💖
Anon, I'm sure he took note of the fact that his audience in Amsterdam has so far brought way less rainbow things than during the last tour 🥺 but it has to be said that on the last tour, if he didn't get flags from fans, he brought his own and he also hasn't done that so far.
On 23 May 2026, H first saw my big flag during Adore You while he was in the middle of greeting the entire audience:
(I only folded it out twice during the entire show, because I did not want to block anyone's view and didn't it get taken away, the rest of the time I held it up in only 1 hand)
and then he DID see it twice (by that I mean he glanced right at it for a second) during TPWK..
^ from the back it looks like he was looking somewhere else, but his eyes were much more to his left, I waas close enough to easily see it.
..then he stayed on the bridge do dance a bit more, then turned around and glanced at it again, but then moved on. So, he did not choose to take it that night, and he defs must've had a reason why he didn't.
It's hard to tell in the screenshot and video; my flag appears to be in the shadows. IRL it was pretty bright in the venue still. (for app users, starts at 22:07):
I made a thorough post of all the things rainbow that were there for him that night here, but yes, my flag was sadly the only big one I could see that was in the pit sections aka. rainbow flags that were available to him.
All of this to show the difference between those exact moments from 23 May 2026 and 29 May 2026 and between the moments in which he didn't and did decide to ask for it (and be really determined in waiting for it). I might have been a conscious choice to only do it for the first time last night! (and I strongly suspect that Louis was there, so maybeeee maybe not that played a part in it, too 🥰🏳️🌈)
I'm so proud of H - ever since he picked up his first rainbow flag in 2015 and ran with it - to this very day, and every day. The past weeks were so full of stressful, yucky stunt bullshit, but his shows seem to be one of his safe spaces. And I hope he felt proud, free, known, seen, and loved last night. He definitely seemed happy and giddy every time he interacted with the audience. What a lovely human bean.
Lastly, I really hope that now that that metaphorical dam has broken again, that more fans will be encouraged to smuggle in big flags 🤭🏳️🌈
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