New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer, along with Register of Wills Ciro Poppiti, County Diversity Commission Member Clayton Stacey and National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign Sarah McBride, raised the Philly Rainbow, Transgender and Bisexual Pride flags at the New Castle County Government Center on Monday morning, June 29, 2020.
The flag raising recognized the 50th anniversary of the first Pride parade on New York City, on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. The flags will fly through the week to commemorate the uprising, which ran from June 28 to July 3, 1969.