“Adding these stripes makes it a point to include people of color and trans people. “It’s always been said that not all of the community is included when it comes to gay pride,” said Brandon Hebert, who works at Bourbon Pub. This year, local sponsors including French Quarter hotels and gay bars kicked off Pride Month by updating the colorful symbol of LGBTQ visibility.Ī more inclusive version designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018 adds a multicolored chevron with black and brown stripes representing LGBTQ people of color and pink, pale blue and white stripes representing the transgender pride flag.
Rainbow Pride flags have decorated North Rampart Street from June through October for the past 20 years. “You have to have rain to have a rainbow,” said former state senator JP Morrell, who was among the speakers at Wednesday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for new Pride flags on North Rampart Street. When a brief rain fell moments before the ceremony’s start, they deployed rainbow-striped umbrellas. They came wearing rainbow neckties, rainbow flutter-sleeve dresses and rainbow sequin-trimmed jackets.
