TPWK at TTT London Night 12, 4 July '26
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Harry picked up a rainbow flag after all...
Please watch the edit I made, because it will show you everything!
But if you don't have time for that right now, here is a breakdown:
Firstly, the crowd in the inner and outer pits were FULL of rainbow flags, balloons, fans, etc. - a truly beautiful sight 🥹💖🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
There were 4 very visible 🏳️🌈 rainbow flags on the catwalk for H, and he did pick up the 4th one after all...
At the start of the song, a kind of blue-ish thick-ish flag/quilt(?) was thrown directly in front of him and he stopped for a sec..
..and said something into the direction of where it was thrown from, then kept walking.
He passed the 1st 🏳️🌈flag, which was already lying on the catwalk..
..and then also passed the 2nd 🏳️🌈flag, which was also on the bridge for him..
..he danced and jumped on there for a while..
..but he didn't look at the flag.
Then he kept walking and a 3rd 🏳️🌈flag was thrown to him, almost hitting him..
..but he was faster and it landed behind him. He did look back and right at it for a second, though:
He kept walking. Then, a 4th 🏳️🌈flag was thrown onto the catwalk:
At first he didn't look at it, but as he steered left and passed it, he bent down and picked it up..
..and handed the flag to one of his dancers..
..then turned around for a second to make sure they really had it and then kept walking.
His dancer danced with the big 🏳️🌈flag held up high, while H looked at them from afar:
The 2nd dancer at the front then picked up the rainbow flag that had been thrown to Harry earlier, and now both dancers had big 🏳️🌈flags:
Harry kept walking and engaging with the crowd, while his dancers kept happily dancing with the 🏳️🌈flags:
While Harry was still prancing on the far left catwalk, his dancers had arrived in the middle of the catwalk and were still dancing with the 🏳️🌈flags:
Then Harry turned and skipped towards them at the center of the catwalk to join the dance circle that had formed around the first 🏳️🌈flag. Then the 2nd dancer carefully laid the 2nd 🏳️🌈flag down in the center of their dance circle..
..and a few seconds after, they ended the song like this:
I think Harry's behaviour during TPWK that night has to be viewed in context:
He didn't run with 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️flags at every single show of his current tour and there were (and will be) shows where despite them being offered to him, he didn't pick them up.
What is also very important to consider is how that entire day had already played out before this song and what H knew was going to happen later on.
He held a 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈London Pride-themed pre-show with queer and trans DJs, drags queens & kings and loads of pride flags for his crowd, while he himself was standing in a corner on the sidelines, next to the door to backstage, in a bathrobe and slides.. just quietly taking it all in and taking photos/videos of it, but otherwise not reacting -- no dancing, no "joining in" -- instead only a quiet spectator from the "shadows" to something he organised for his community. In a perfect world, he would've gotten to participate 🥺.. and then one of his closest friends Ale came up to him, hugged him tight and left Harry be, because I imagine he knew that's what Harry needed. (this post describes it all perfectly)
Harry verbally acknowledged London Pride when he introduced himself to the crowd. The only colours H wore that night were blue and green💙💚, he thanked the other boys of One Direction by name (meaning it was also the first time in over 3 years that he said Louis' name out loud in public), he played Sweet Creature (a song he wrote for Louis) for the first time in forever, Gemma came on stage to congratulate him on breaking the record of most consecutive shows played at Wembley; a record that had already made him tear up at the end of the prior (11th) show.
I think that H not picking up any flag for himself that night was a conscious decision! That's clear from how many flags he passed; even one that was directly thrown at him. He only picked up the 4th flag when he saw the dancers coming his way and then handed it to one of them. Perhaps that was agreed upon beforehand; perhaps H knew that his dancers are queer and wanted to let them have their own kind of "rainbow flag run" that night - it wouldn't be the first time -- one of his dancers picked up a bi pride flag to dance with during the Amsterdam residency. Perhaps H felt like it was 'not his place' that night, perhaps he wanted to boldly display his current state in his & our community: admiring it from afar/from the outside, because he's still closeted; not being allowed to openly join in, yet. Or perhaps him not running with a flag himself that night compensated for the extraordinarily LOUD queer & trans celebration during his pre-show, attaching himself publicly to London Pride - the biggest Pride protest of the city. Perhaps he was told an ultimatum of 'you can either have this or that'... but whatever it was, him not running with a 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️flag was not a coincidence.
If someone else has other/more thoughts on this, feel free to add them. 💖
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