Abstract Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Legacy Survey, we study the alignment of luminous galaxies with spectroscopic data with the surrounding larger-scale structure as defined by galaxies with only photometric data. We find that galaxies from the red sequence have a statistically significant tendency for their apparent long axes to align parallel to the projected surrounding structure. Red galaxies more luminous than the median of our sample (M _r < −21.78) have a mean alignment angle 〈Φ〉 < 45°, indicating preferred parallel alignment, at a significance level >4.5σ on projected scales 0.1 Mpc < r _p ≤ 7.5 Mpc. Fainter red galaxies have 〈Φ〉 < 45° at a significance level >4.3σ at scales 1 Mpc < r _p < 3 Mpc. At a projected scale r _p = 3.0 Mpc, the mean alignment angle decreases steadily with increasing luminosity for red galaxies with M _r ≲ −22.5, reaching 〈Φ〉 = 40.°49 ± 0.°56 for the most luminous 1% (M _r ∼ −23.57). Galaxies from the blue sequence show no statistically significant tendency for their axes to align with larger-scale structure, regardless of galaxy luminosity. Galaxies in higher-density regions do not show a statistically significant difference in the mean alignment angle from galaxies in lower-density regions; this holds true for the faint blue, luminous blue, faint red, and luminous red subsets.