The unveiling took place on the last day of Pride Month — and a week before the Long Beach Pride Parade & Festival.
Long Beach unveiled an even more inclusive version of its Pride crosswalks at the Broadway and Junipero Avenue intersection on Thursday. June 30 — a prelude to other initiatives and events that will further celebrate the LGBTQ community.
Long Beach will also add the new colors to the rest of the crosswalks in the Broadway corridor next week, according to a city press release.The crosswalks along the Broadway corridor, an area with historic significance for Long Beach’s LGBTQ community, have been painted in Pride colors since 2015. Mayor Robert Garcia, Councilwoman Cindy Allen and Long Beach leaders of the LGBTQ+ communities at the updated Pride crosswalks located at the intersection of Broadway and Junipero Avenue in Long Beach on Thursday, June 30, 2022. The updated crosswalks now feature the Progress Pride colors, which include black and brown stripes to represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, and the colors pink, light blue and white to incorporate elements of the Transgender Pride Flag.
Rueben Rivera measures the finished intersection of Broadway and Junipero Avenue in Long Beach on Thursday, June 30, 2022. The updated crosswalks now feature the Progress Pride colors, which include black and brown stripes to represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, and the colors pink, light blue and white to incorporate elements of the Transgender Pride Flag. Garcia and Allen weren’t the only ones to celebrate the Progress Pride crosswalks at Broadway and Junipero on Thursday.
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