Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fR5HPo2RjE Despite it being their summer break before heading off to college, every day for 10 days, Izzy Bacallao, 18, arrived at the 13th Street lifeguard tower in Hermosa Beach just after sunrise in their painting clothes ready to work. Bacallao, who identifies as nonbinary because they do not identify as strictly male or female and uses the pronouns “they,” “them” and “their,” pushed to have the lifeguard tower painted rainbow in honor of Pride Month.  “Pride Month, to me, means joy. It means breaking down barriers that are typically brought into society,” Bacallao said. “It means expressing yourself to an unlimited extent. It’s embracing your community and diversity and everyone’s identity. It means tolerance, and it means learning. But ...