The City of Clearwater also raised a Pride flag in front of its Clearwater Municipal Services Building and is painting a community mural. Tampa has received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality Index for four years. The City of Tampa, Old City Hall and the Tampa Riverwalk will also be lit up in rainbow colors at sunset. “We cannot and we will not stand silent while our fundamental rights of freedom, choice and self-determination are stripped away by anyone or any organization including politicians in Washington and Tallahassee,” he said to cheers.Īround the same time across the bay, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, who is openly gay, raised the LGBT flag along with Equality Florida and the Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber. Welch vowed to fight discrimination “in every form” against the LGBTQ community.
