Tory Councillor Suspended for Saying She Doesn’t Want ‘Pride Sex’ or ‘Heterosexual’ Flags on High Street

General view of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual, and agender) flag outside a bookshop during UK Pride Month 2021 in London on June 1, 2021. Edward Smith/Getty Images

A Tory councillor who said she didn’t want “Pride sex flags” along her local high street and that “sex is for the bedroom and private life” has been suspended by the Conservative party.

On Saturday, Angela Kilmartin, an 81-year-old Conservative councillor in Essex, southeast England, was told by the Witham Conservative Association that she had been suspended over posts she wrote on social media criticising Pride flags.