San Francisco’s City Hall donned a striking blue, pink, and white color scheme in honor of Transgender Awareness Week.

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The dome and columns of the building are affixed with 220 LED lights. The lights illuminate different colors for various causes — like sports, politics, and social issues.

This week’s colors represent the Transgender Pride flag. City Hall sported this look from Monday, 12 November through Wednesday the 14th.

Yet, instead of just having one week to honor transgender people, Mayor London Breed declared the entirety of November Transgender Awareness Month. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean the blue, pink, and white theme for the rest of the month. Upcoming lighting schemes can be found here.

Transgender Awareness Week

According to GLAAD, Transgender Awareness Week officially runs from 12 November through the 19th. It is followed by the Transgender Day of Remembrance on 20 November.

‘Transgender Awareness Week is a time for transgender people and their allies to take action and bring attention to the community by educating the public and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that transgender people face,’ GLAAD writes.

‘Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor her memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.’

History of the Trans Pride flag

Activist Monica Helms designed the blue, pink, and white Trans Pride flag back in 1999. The pale colors, often used as shorthand for a baby’s gender, are a subversive nod to the system of assigning gender at birth.

San Francisco & the LGBTI community

San Francisco has long been an important hub for America’s LGBTI community. For instance, SF was home to the first openly gay elected official in California, Harvey Milk. Milk served on the city’s Board of Supervisors from 1977 until his assassination a year later. San Francisco’s airport is even changing the name of one of its terminals to honor the fallen LGBTI hero.

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