![]() The Pride Committee has decided to ask the community not only to help pay for the replacement flags but also to help decide what type of flag to buy. "We have been putting that cost off but the time has come," said Behan in an interview, adding that he would like to have new flags in place for 2013. As Pride has struggled to clear away a fiscal deficit it incurred in 2010, the committee does not have the funds to cover the expense. The cost to replace the flags is estimated at $40,000. The Pride Committee each year pays for the permit needed in order to fly the flags. "We have reached the very end of the current generation of flags' lifespan, and we will need to replace the entire inventory, which will require purchasing 500 new flags as well as the equipment that is required to hang the flags." "Our current set of rainbow flags have been in rotation in the Market Street display for 10 years," Pride Executive Director Brendan Behan told the Bay Area Reporter in an email. After delighting visitors for the last decade, the current stash of 500 flags has reached its durability limit. One of the hallmarks of San Francisco's annual Pride celebration is seeing Market Street lined with rainbow flags throughout the month of June.īut the city's main thoroughfare doubles as a wind tunnel, wrecking havoc on the LGBT symbols attached to light poles along the street.
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