I am aware that not every country is on the same page when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights, so Iād like to get some feedback: would it be okay to use these stamps when sending mail to your country?
To Sweden - definitely.
To Poland - it depends. If the algorithm assigned to you a seriously catholic person (who is writing about their religious beliefs on their profile), thereās non-zero chance that they might be homophobic.
Most of Western Europe countries has well established LGBTQ+ rights and itās not controversial to send stamps like these.
Please feel free to use them for mail to Poland too!
They are ceratinly āpolitically incorrectā here - but the government and the people are two different things - and the situation is not as bad here (yet) that Polish Post would not deliver mail with such stamps.
In fact, Polish Post even accepts āpolitically incorrectā stamps used as postage. For instance, I have frequently used old stamps showing Lech Walesa - whose official status here in Poland is now that of a ātraitorā - and those cards arrived without problems. Also, when printing postage stickers bought online, you can add a picture of your own choice or design - and when I used the Polish version of the āNo human is illegalā logo, Polish Post delivered my cards and letters without fail
Stamps are great!
Iām totally sure that postal workers in Russia will not understand itās pride stamps - if youāre worried about travelling of card, not only about recipient! If i donāt know it is, iāll not understand it too - maybe only because of rainbow So if user want or like this kind of stamps, why not?
But Iāll not send this kind of stamp to people age 50+ in Russia - theyāre quite old in mind, much more older than same age person in Europe, soā¦
Totally fine in Italy, too! I donāt know about the postal workers, but one of my neighbours commented positively on a Pride postcard I received, it made me happy
As @siobhan said, no problem at all to send these to Germany.
I would like to believe that the majority of German postcrossers would not only accept but appreciate these.
Iām not a member of the LGBTQI+ community myself but I like to consider myself a straight ally.
Iād also ask people if youāre going to use them for swaps, tags - some people need to not have stamps like that show up on their mail eh?
Thereās postal systemsā or countriesā acceptance or not & then thereās individual circumstances and whether they want any Pride/LGBTQ+ imagery visible on their mail. Or whether itās safe for any individual to have mail show up with that imagery.
Having just done a bunch of Pride card swaps & a lottery, I gave people an option for an envelope with regular non-Pride stamps & some people wanted that option.
I wouldnāt use our Canadian Pride stamp unless I am sure itās okay with someone first.