Several LGBTQ+ organizations and allied organizations rallied together Thursday evening to fight for the rainbow crosswalk to stay in the Pride Cultural Heritage District.

The event was titled ‘Unity in the Community’ and comes after directives from state and federal officials to remove the rainbow-painted crosswalk for alleged safety concerns.

“I never thought in my lifetime I would see marriage equality, and we did,” Autumn Summers said at the event. “I never thought that we would get a crosswalk, and we did. Now they’re trying to take it away from us.”

A cyclist, who identifies as heterosexual and happened to pass by the event, said he finds the crosswalk ‘very festive’ and said he doesn’t feel like it should go away.

The crosswalk is in the crosshairs of the U.S. Department of Tran

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