Overview
- Local leaders held a flag-raising at Clas Park outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse on Monday that featured the Intersex Progress Flag and remarks from County Executive David Crowley, County Board Chair Marcelia Nicholson-Bovell, Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Alderman Peter Burgelis.
- The Intersex Progress Flag adds chevrons and an intersex symbol to the Progress design to represent transgender people, LGBTQ people of color and intersex individuals and to acknowledge those living with or lost to HIV/AIDS.
- The ceremony continues a statewide practice of flying Pride flags at government sites, with the Wisconsin State Capitol set to raise a Progress-style Pride flag for the eighth consecutive year following Gov. Tony Evers’s 2019 order to fly the Rainbow Pride flag.
- Milwaukee’s flag-raising marks the official start of local Pride Month activity and precedes the city’s Pride Parade on Sunday as well as a calendar of festivals, educational programs and advocacy events across southeast Wisconsin.
- Officials and local media framed the display as both a visibility measure and a policy signal that aims to make government spaces more welcoming, a step that supporters say may influence public programs and community access to services over the month.