The pride colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community, and tonight, these colors celebrate a new chapter in the history of American civil rights.” “As of 7:08 PM, the sunlight made it difficult make out the colors, but red, orange, yellow, green and violet were faintly visible,” according to a pool report.Īccording to a White House official, the lighting was done “to demonstrate our unwavering commitment to progress and equality, here in America and around the world. Hodges, which guaranteed a constitutional right to same-sex marriage across America.
The Obama administration bathed the north side of the executive mansion in rainbow-colored light to celebrate the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in Obergefell v.