Last week, the state DOT denied a request to light Sarasota’s John Ringling Causeway Bridge with rainbow lights to celebrate Pride Month, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It is my understanding that a certain color palette is available on that permit, but specific questions about that permit and light, I would have to refer you to JTA.'
Since it is on a state structure, JTA must have a permit for that light. He continued: 'The aesthetic lighting is owned and operated by JTA. 'I would have to refer you to the owning and operating agency that has a permit for those lights,' FDOT spokesman Hampton Ray told the Times-Union Tuesday evening. The lights have been changed to honor everything from Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to Jaguars home game weekends. The multi-colored 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. Looking back: Remembering the old Acosta Bridge
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