Thirty-one years after the Hall of Administration downtown was named after her father, then-supervisor Kenneth Hahn, known as a liberal reformer, Supervisor Janice Hahn witnessed history Thursday: the flying of a Pride flag at the building in honor from her father.

The Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration event kicked off LGBTQ+ Pride Month and marked the first time a Pride flag had flown over a building in Los Angeles County.

The Progress Pride flag will be flying daily at county offices during Pride Month, and the timing felt right for Janice Hahn, the president of the board. She co-authored the resolution with District 3 supervisor Lindsey Horvath.

“We are seeing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans laws being passed across the country at an alarming rate,” Hahn said in a statement after the five-member council voted unanimously in March to fly the Pride flag at county offices each year. “Here in Los Angeles County, we’re making our position clear: In the nation’s largest county, LGBTQ+ residents have the unwavering support of their government.”

The Progress Pride flag, designed by Daniel Quasar, is adapted from the original rainbow flag with chevron in black, brown, pink, white and light blue on the left side to represent black and brown LGBTQ people and the trans community, respectively.

Hahn and Horvath were joined Thursday morning by supervisors Hilda Solis and Kathryn Barger, Dist. attentive George Gascn and Assessor Jeff Prang.

Also in attendance was Sister Tootie Toot, a member of the LA Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an LGBTQ activist group of drag nuns. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulggence received national attention after the Dodgers announced that they would be awarding the sisters a community hero award at a June 16 Pride Night event at Dodger Stadium. multiple days.

The unveiling of the Pride flag in the Hall of Administration comes amid a climate where states have restricted the rights of transgender people and other LGBTQ communities, ban drag performances in public spaces, and ban gender affirmation procedures or hormone replacement therapies for minors.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, there are currently more than 490 bills restricting the rights of the LGBTQ community during this legislature.

In a 3-2 vote, the Redlands City Council voted last month not to fly a Pride flag because flying an unofficial flag violates city policy.

The Huntington Beach City Council voted in February to stop flying the rainbow flag at City Hall and to limit the number of flags allowed to fly on city property.

It’s not about throwing out the Pride flag. I have a cousin and a niece who are both gay and we love them dearly, said Councilman Pat Burns, who drafted the ordinance. But in my family we recognize everyone equally. … Let’s just stick with our beautiful American flag and everything else.

The ordinance prohibits flags outside of flags representing the U.S., the state of California, the city of Huntington Beach and Orange County, as well as the POW/MIA flag and flags representing departments of the United States Armed Forces, from being flown on city property .

Last week, a transgender teacher at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood discovered that a Pride flag displayed in a flower pot had been burned and the pot broken by an intruder. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed they were investigating the vandalism.

Tensions at the school flared after some parents protested the school’s Pride monthly meeting, in which administrators planned to talk about families with gay parents.