It was confirmed on last Wednesday that the colourful transgender identity and gay rights advocate, Carmen Rupe, who died in 2011, will be immortalised in four pedestrian crossing lights along her old haunt in central Wellington, New Zealand.

Carmen Carmen Rupe pedestrian light

Despite being more familiar with red lights during her time in the capital, an image of Carmen Rupe will replace the green light that gives pedestrians right of way, www.stuff.co.nz reports.

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