The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District announced it will launch a community survey later this month, to be followed by a town hall, on the subject of raising a more contemporary Pride flag at Castro and Market streets.
This comes weeks after the Castro Merchants Association, which pays for and maintains the 20 by 30 foot flag, proposed installing a second flagpole in the Castro neighborhood to fly a Pride flag design newer than Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag. "We believe it is absolutely time for us to show our Black, Brown, and trans siblings how much representation matters to us on this board by raising a contemporary Pride flag that prioritizes and highlights diversity and inclusivity, atop Harvey Milk Plaza," the cultural district stated in