To kick off Pride Week, there are five flags gracing the flag pole outside city hall.
Mayor Lisa Helps and council members welcomed all citizens, Transgender, Non-Binary, Genderqueer and 2 Spirit as the multicoloured flags were hoisted up.
One of the speakers, Hope Warren touched on the division within the community and society and asked for connectedness.
"I'd invite us to resist becoming polarized by change. Instead, I would invite us all to celebrate the amazing and beautiful butterflies fluttering around our precious garden city. It means that we are doing something right here in this city."
Mayor Helps says the City of Victoria is proud to be a welcoming and inclusive community for all people regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.