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San Francisco's City Hall Is Now a Technicolor Rainbow

Never has a hub of governance looked so fabulous.
The Atlantic Cities

San Francisco had much to celebrate this week with the Supreme Court's double slam against DOMA and California's anti-gay-marriage Prop 8. A helicopter circled the Castro district all day long, and news crews on the ground described scenes like this one from the L.A. Times:

Meanwhile, San Francisco's City Hall is celebrating gay rights in its own peacockish way, with a rainbow-colored lightshow blazing on the building's facade. Work crews put up the lights earlier this week to recognize SF Pride, which culminates in this Sunday's LGBT Pride Parade starring 30 Rock hottie Cheyenne Jackson. But the spectacle has gained extra glory in the wake of the recent decisions from the nation's highest court.