West Hollywood has updated its iconic rainbow crosswalks to be more inclusive, city officials announced Wednesday.
“My hope is that the crosswalks convey that message and a message of inclusiveness. Let us not forget that a rainbow is not just six colors or 10 colors – if it truly represents our community, then it is an infinite number of colors,” West Hollywood Mayor Lauren Meister said in a statement.
The rainbow crosswalks first appeared in 2012, modeled after the rainbow flag.
The design was updated with a chevron pattern on both sides featuring black and brown stripes to represent LGBTQ people of color, as well as pink, light blue, and white to represent transgender people, according to West Hollywood officials.
The new pride crosswalks are at the same locations in the city’s Rainbow District at the intersection of Santa Monica and North San Vicente boulevards.
“This intersection has served a not only as focal point of LGBTQ community-making, but also as a historic spot for protests and activism, and the site of countless actions that embrace the catalyst for progress in the fight for full civil and human rights of LGBTQ people, everywhere,” city officials said in a news release.
The City Council approved the new design in November 2021.
“It’s so great to see this newly painted crosswalk,” said Councilmember John D’Amico. “It’s always exciting to see how our city reviews, refines, and resets the discussion of acceptance and inclusion.”
The above comes from a March 23 story on KTLA News.
See? They can’t shut up about it. It’s always in your face GAY GAY GAY GAY. I’m sick of it. I’ve told trans people to their face that they aren’t what they think they are. Big time pushback is coming from decent, middle America.
There is a growing number of lesbians that bitterly resent men declaring that they are women and being given the benefit of the doubt that being a woman is simply wearing makeup, high heels and a skirt. These actual women are being marginalized and isolated by the very organizations that once advocated for them because they are stepping off of the plantation.
This past week, the Public Library Association held a big, national week-long conference in Portland, Oregon, which was attended by over 4,000 people. One of their big agendas, is called Queering the Library, with plans to expand programs and services for LGBTs, including kids. They also claim that the Dewey Decimal system is “very biased” against “marginalized people.” The public library system and school library systems no longer uphold traditional decency and morality, nor excellence in literature. In many cities, they have introduced Drag Queen Story Hours for toddlers, promoted extremely sexually deviant and pornographic books, films, and cartoons for kids, and have sponsored summer programs to include the Sex Week for teens, promoting sex acts of all types, handing out free condoms and sex toys, serving kids lunch for the week, and offering kids $100 to sign up.
My comment of Narch 25th at 10:54pm was edited!
Unfortunately, editors removed proper quotation marks around items such as “Queering the Library,” “Drag Queen Story Hour,” etc. Big mistake! I ended by stating that we need good, stern laws back on the books, to uphold morality and decency, and to especially protect minors from all filth and evil.
I no longer vote for taxes for public libraries. One friend told me to ask the public library to get certain good books if they do not carry them, but I prefer to buy and exchange my own books. They can be gotten online so cheaply, why bother with a public library and risk the kidnapping of your children as has happened in many public libraries recently. The less government I have in my life, the better I like it.
Hooray for Utah, which legislated no trans. A male is a male and a female is a female, and they cannot be interchanged nor switched.
Remember second-hand smoke and how governments pushed to outlaw smoking in restaurants and bars and other indoor spaces?
Well, it’s time we talk about the dangers of second-hand gay and second-hand trans. What Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbot are doing is to protect families and children from having their minds be infected with second-hand gay and second-hand trans ideology.
This obnoxious LGBTQ sidewalk is an example of second-hand gay. I don’t want to see it. Why should my eyes be assaulted by it in a public space? My mind is sufficiently developed and I’m sufficiently intelligent and mature not to be corroded by such displays, but young children are vulnerable to being groomed to accept this as normal and good.
Oppose it. Stop it. Halt it. Eliminate it.
May it be used as a public restroom
By using less than bright white reflective traffic paint the new color scheme will endanger pedestrian lives in addition to the moral dangers noted in previous comments.
Can’t have too much white. That would be white nationalism. Must be diverse.
Baloney! God’s rainbow, the real rainbow, has seven colors. All else are fake.
The Bible doesn’t say how many colors were in the rainbow Noah saw.
it was the same rainbow that is in the sky. The Bible is clear on that. The number seven in Biblical symbolism is a holy number.
There are no distinct colors in a rainbow. It’s a spectrum that smoothly transitions from one color to another instead of having discrete divisions into six or seven bands of color. Our visual system (eyes and brain) are evolutionarily predisposed to see distinct colors. What we see as distinct colors in a rainbow is an illusion, not what is really there.
The Democratic Party now regards straight white males as intrinsically racist, bigoted, ignorant, oppressive men.
As such, white male Democrats, why don’t you leave this bigotry behind, and try another political party?