This aerial photograph shows a part of Hermosa Beach near the pier. Photo: City of Hermosa Beach. A Hermosa Beach lifeguard tower will be painted the LGBTQ rainbow colors for Pride Month.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion last week that instructs the county’s Department of Beaches and Harbors to work with the City of Hermosa Beach to transform the lifeguard tower just north of the Hermosa Beach pier from June 1 to the end of summer.
The idea to paint the tower came from lzzy Bacallao, a local transgender teen. Bacallao, who uses the pronouns they and them, was motivated to do something in the coastal city after the rainbow-painted Pride lifeguard tower in Long Beach burned down in March.