Pete, shining rainbow-colored lights at night. Petersburg institutions, including Tropicana Field and the Museum of Fine Arts, participated in Light Up St. It was originally to be painted during June, for Pride month, but logistically it couldn’t happen until July. The organization raised $7,600 from the community, enough to not only paint the mural but also to preserve it for years to come. Pete Pride to host a fundraiser during June.

Petersburg Arts Alliance, Nixon said the mural wasn’t necessarily something the city would fund, although the city approved the mural. “Why not consider that approach?”Īlthough he circled in the assistance of Wayne Atherholt, the Mayor’s Office director of cultural affairs, and John Collins, director of the St. The LGBTQ+ pride flag is a symbol of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and more (+), or LGBTQ+, pride and social movements. Pride Palace’s best selling flag: the LGBTQ+ pride flag. Nixon and his team worked with the Florida Department of Transportation until they received the approval. Here are some of the different lesbian flags and their meanings: 1) LGBTQ+ Flag. So they pivoted to the idea of a rainbow intersection mural. Petersburg’s Mayor’s Office LGBT liaison, said that the idea for a rainbow crosswalk has been in the works for four years, but ran into road blocks by the Florida Department of Transportation because of its ban on use of nonuniform colors in crosswalks.īut since then, an intersection mural at Central Avenue and Fifth Street by Cecilia Lueza was approved and painted for the Shine Mural Festival and has been a successful tool in slowing the traffic down.