Over the holiday weekend, the temperature was high and the air quality subpar, but the party went on — specifically, the Pride Mural Paint Party — at Oakland’s Lake Merritt. On Sunday, participants grabbed paint rollers, dipped them in trays of white, blue and purple paint and got to work refreshing what has become a key fixture in the city: the mural that reads, “All Black Trans + Queer + Nonbinary + Women’s + Disabled + Imprisoned Lives Matter.” It is no coincidence that the new paint job is taking place in September, Oakland’s official Pride Month.
