The former mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, has posed for his official portrait wearing the pink triangle to signal his support for the city’s LGBT community.

Herb Bergson left office four and a half years ago and the portrait has only been hung now because Bergson refused to have any public money spent on it.

‘The reason it took so long is, I refused to use taxpayers’ money for self-gratification,’ Bergson told the Duluth News Tribune on Sunday.

‘The city was hurting for several years.’