Jacksonville Residents Defy DeSantis’s Ban On Rainbow Lights On State’s Bridges By Using Flashlights [VIDEO]

Action News Jacksonville reports:

On Friday night, community members gathered to display their own version of pride — by lighting up the Main Street Bridge in San Marco with rainbow colors. This comes after the Florida Department of Transportation said all state bridges must be lit red, white, and blue all summer long for Governor Ron DeSantis’s Freedom Summer.

Seventy people held flashlights of the six different colors of pride to illuminate rainbow on the Main Street Bridge. “This is an awesome experience,” participant Rebecca Thacker-Sanchez said. “It feels really fun actually, I feel like we’re writing history today,” participant Andres Santandreu said.

First Coast News reports: 

“I thought it came off great,” said Jacksonville resident Matt McAllister, who helped organize the lighting event that came together in 48 hours. The 70 people holding flashlights on the bridge were cheered on by a big crowd watching from the Southbank riverwalk.

It was a night of many lights in downtown: Friendship Fountain sent columns of multi-colored water into the air where the crowd watched the Main Street bridge, fireworks went off over the baseball field at the sports complex after a Jumbo Shrimp game, downtown towers had their usual array of decorative lighting.

The organizer is interviewed in the video below.

I love my city! In response to Gov. Ron DeSantis banning Pride lights being displayed on bridges in Florida this year, dozens of local residents used different color flashlights to project a rainbow on the Main Street Bridge in downtown Jacksonville.

Picture: @JimmyMidyette pic.twitter.com/MBv3VQwVOH

— Travis Akers (@travisakers) June 1, 2024

“As night fell Friday on downtown Jacksonville, 70 people lined the pedestrian walkway of the Main Street bridge and simultaneously turned on high-powered flashlights that lit the bridge in a ribbon of rainbow colors arching above the St. Johns River.”

*sigh* pic.twitter.com/W3ULzWyc94

— SFDB (@sfdb) June 1, 2024

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