Source: Florida Times-Union
After controversial removal, Acosta Bridge's rainbow Pride lights will be back on tonight
Katherine Lewin
Florida Times-Union
Published 10:40 a.m. ET Jun. 9, 2021 | Updated 11:36 a.m. ET Jun. 9, 2021
The colors of the Pride flag will shine from the Acosta Bridge tonight, according to the governor's office, after the Florida Department of Transportation unceremoniously ordered the removal of the rainbow lighting from the bridge yesterday.
"The bottom line is, lights will be back up tonight," said Taryn Fenske, spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis' office.
She says she does not know who actually turned the lights off or what happened behind-the-scenes with the last-minute cancellation of the lights.
By late Tuesday, the bridge was lit up in blue instead of the scheduled multi-colored display. The Pride lights were intended to glow all week in honor of Pride Month, which remembers the June 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City when patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn tavern staged an uprising to resist police harassment and persecution of gays.
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