Salt Lake City Flies Transgender Sego Visibility Flag at City Hall
Salt Lake City raised the transgender Sego Visibility Flag outside City Hall on Nov. 13 to mark the start of Transgender Awareness Week.
It was only the second time the flag had flown at the municipal building, ABC4 reported. Mayor Erin Mendenhall used the ceremony to deliver a direct message to local trans residents.
“It means that we love our trans Salt Lakers, and we want you here,” she said.
The banner combines the blue, pink, and white stripes of the traditional transgender Pride flag with the city’s sego lily emblem. Its status as an official municipal flag allows the city to display it under an exception in state flag restrictions.
Utah’s HB 77 restricts flags displayed on government property to a specific list of permitted categories. The statute does not name Pride flags among its general exceptions.
One exception covers flags representing a municipality, county, or other political subdivision. The law also bars altering the colors, symbols, or appearance of an otherwise exempt flag.
Salt Lake City responded by formally adopting additional city designs. That made the Sego Visibility pattern a municipal flag in its own right, carrying a message of inclusion.
The City Council adopted three additional designs on May 6, 2025, bringing the total to four alongside the existing blue-and-white Sego Lily Flag.
The Sego Visibility Flag represents transgender residents. The Sego Belonging Flag celebrates the wider LGBTQIA community, while the Sego Celebration Flag honors Juneteenth and Black and African American residents.
Each design carries the sego lily in its upper corner. The shared emblem identifies the flags specifically with Salt Lake City.
Lawmakers revisited flag rules in 2026 with HB 302. The proposal would have limited which municipal flags could appear at certain public facilities while allowing additional designs at City Hall, KSL reported.
Fane Harris, operations coordinator for Project Rainbow Utah, also spoke at the Friday ceremony. ABC4 said that Harris highlighted the political and physical antagonism directed at transgender individuals, while simultaneously celebrating the happiness of watching people exist genuinely.
According to Mendenhall, officially embracing the flag guarantees that trans individuals hold a permanent spot in the capital’s narrative.
Transgender Awareness Week runs through Nov. 19. It is followed by Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, which honors people lost to anti-trans violence.