Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
sure is nice when your identity is called a political banner. definitely makes me feel like an autonomous human being with rights in our society equal to straight people and families with children. I say we remove signs prioritizing families with children from parking lots. Fair trade.
Exactly. They honestly believe they are the default and any other identity is “political.” They identity politics harder than any Dem could ever hope to, they are just too dense to see it. It seems they’ve made being a hetero family political so it would be fair game.
Its weird how being a magat and a nazi isn’t “political” to them though.
Nazis only speak in violence
Love how remembrance of a tragic event and its victims is seen as a political banner to this administration.
A society of no values, no principles, only endless grievance & succesionist piece of shit traitors.
So now tributes to #LGBTQ murdered aren't OK because they're political, but the #FascistGOP can make Keil Rittenhouse a right wing hero? And #DeSantisCowards do it at night. #ResistFascism #QuidProQuo Paint it back @ night, each time it's removed. Paint over street signs named aftr Republithugs.
Did the City of Kenosha paint a crosswalk in honor of Rittenhouse? No. False Equivalence.
Relax. It was an example of the GOP hypocrisy, not the location. How's this, the Fascist GOP uses military widows as props for campaigns, but this tribute is "political"?
Are you claiming that only the GOP is hypocritical?
Found the foreveralone dipshit!
A factual statement isn't an ad hominem, pilgrim. Anyways, you're already in a basement, pretend it's a bunker and follow someone...save your poor parents thousands of dollars!
Read 1-3 again.
The fact that your pathetic life looks like shit is a you problem, bro. You hold the key within you to stop being a useless foreveralone. You can make that choice. But these are the consequences of *your* own actions, bro. You did this to yourself. Save Mommy and Daddy some money!
If you're upset over this.... "Did the City of Kenosha paint a crosswalk in honor of Rittenhouse? No. False Equivalence." You're the useless & pathetic one. 😂
I'm not upset. It's just that we generally don't paint a crosswalk to honor murderers, we do it for their victims, and...well, those weren't really victims the community chose to honor, now were they? But something tells me you thinkn Dylann Roof a hero. Your poor, put-upon parents...
This person is just eating your upset with a spoon. And every time you address the points with facts, they will move the goalposts. Block this person and move on. They aren’t worth your time, friend.
Rittenhouse/Murderer 🚫 Self defense isn't murder. In fact, there's an entire state statute that covers this. You should read it.
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Except this was a memorial to 49 people who died, not a political statement, fuck that piss poor governor DeSantis.
Boo!
What a horrible place the USA has become
So put it back?
Ron the alpha DeSantis power move was to cover up a memorial for 49 murdered people. If anything screams smalls and petty this is it. What a loser.
Small and petty are Ronnie’s middle names
To have faceless mooks cover it up in the middle of the night, even. Just so there was no naming or shaming his brownshirts by any other name.
It's not the government's job to forcefully take people's money to do LGBT activism, which is something a large portion of the population do not even like.
What are you even saying?
He wants you to block his sorry ass. Actually, he wants everyone to block his sorry ass.
Welp, I'm all too happy to oblige him.
Good for them! This was recorded in honor of the Pulse victims: youtu.be/U85U3dPuiR4?...
Yeah, I was gonna say "People should paint it back. Make him waste tax dollars on a cat and mouse game."
Trump will deploy the National Guard to watch this crosswalk 24/7 and kill whoever so much as bends down because they dropped their phone.
They literally have police on standby there 24/7 there I think. Good use of police funding???
smdh
You are not wrong. Just station some anarchists there 24/7 with paint and rollers—well away from the crosswalk and they can just stare at the armed response silently. And ask someone politely how much that deployment costs us daily. And mask the anarchists to avoid facial recognition.
I think I can rustle up a few juggalos.
Good for them! 💕
Ridiculous. Why are they so threatened by everything?!?
Assuming this will be guerrilla graffiti'd, re erased and guerrilla graffiti'd over and over (heh) again and again. It'll soon be a speed bump.
Yes, I'd say paint it again but I'm on the wrong coast to help
People used sidewalk chalk today
It’ll be a paint battle soon enough
Both "this homophobic shooting is too political to remember" and "Gay people are political" bullshit from the fascists is not surprising. Every single one of them should be removed from society.
“Under cover of night”, repaint that shit. Paint the whole fucking town rainbow. Start throwing water balloons of paint in all colors and throwing them everywhere, under the cover of night.
Under cover of night. More cowards hiding from actions they know are wrong.
Repaint.
Breaking- DeSantis children placed in foster home after drawing too many rainbows. 🌈🏳️🌈
Bah hum bug! Phoey! What nonsense!
So sad
Bastards
Successfully making the US a much greyer place
Is this a good time to remind them, that the Bible has a rainbow in it??
Paint it again. Make them keep coming back.
They did! www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
The way the US is going, you may be able to apply for this in time. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
How is the LGBTQ+ political? That's like saying being straight is.
Imagine the blood rage fury they would enter if you pointed out that war memorials are a political statement and also virtue signalling so they should all be removed.
Get rid of the blue lines in the median next then.
Under cover of night…lots of this coming?
Repaint it
*ssholes!
Be a shame if a bunch of people with paint rollers went in under the cover of night and painted it gay again. Sure would be a shame...
From what I’ve heard, someone did!
The LGBT community got there with chalk
Nott good enough
It shouldn't be our *job*. This is part of the problem.
It shouldn’t. But they’re making it such.
Such a petty little boy
I'll never forgive straight people
Not all straight people are homophobes.
Cowards knew that their asses would be grass otherwise.
Be a shame if someone brought out spray chalk and made them come out and take it off again every single damn night if that's what it takes.
Time for some rainbow graffiti… Under the cover of night
This is sick!!! Holy shit I hate these people!
"Just following orders."
Bigotry and Racism, the bread and butter of the Republikkkan party.
Who do we donate to to get it repainted?? As many times as necessary.
Republicans hate people.
Being gay is political now? So, the only way to not be political is the be a constantly miserable white conservative?
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being gay has always been political
Whether we want it to be or not.
Yes. What part of that is unclear to you? Are you stupid? "get in the pod and eat the bugs" was just them projecting what they actually want to do.
Ugh
And a man.
And "Christian". But not Christian in the way that aims to instill empathy and values, "Christian" in the way that justifies your hate for others.
And women aren't even on the board.
I mean half the GOP is deeply closeted self-loathing LGBTQ people trying to punish openly LGBTQ people for not following "the rules"
That is what these hate filled white supremacists believe.
Yup. An “everything bothers me, up to and including chain restaurant logos”
genocide is a process
When politicians are moving, not at all subtly, to erase and outlaw your very existence based simply on who you love in your own home and who you want to hold hands with in public. There is no alternative. Either stand and be counted, or be erased while begging on your knees.
That's the first thing that came into my head. Since when has being gay, political?
Heterosexual or political. White or political. Male or political. Christian or political.
They've made it political a long time ago. It should be as political as being white, which is not at all.
can't it be repainted at night ?
They always say that architecture under communism would be drab and grey and here they are taking the color out of the world. Every. Single. Accusation.
You know what'd be super hilarious? If ninja painters, under cover of night, went around with paint brushes and a rainbow of paint tins and painted sidewalks around the city. Like, not this particular sidewalk, 'cause it'll be watched, but guerilla, anarchist style random ones all over the place.
I hate living in this country more and more everyday.
Sounds to me like it needs to be repainted “under cover of night”…
it would be a shame if someone in the middle of the night went and put the rainbow back...
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca... Or just everyone in broad daylight, unashamed and defiant 💖
youtu.be/YmsRqSCdC6E?... They've gone and repainted it with actual paint!!! 🎉🌈✨✊
Fuck yeah 💪🏼 🌈
They’re about to do this to Key West, which has inset crosswalks that paint doesn’t fix. They said “do it or we will stop funding you on a state level and come do it ourselves” Key West is appealing, the state has told them ahead of time they aren’t changing their mind, set a date AFTER the deadline
DeathSantas is Fucking Disgusting.
Ban Christianity
I read that protests are planned after they remove the rainbow crosswalk, I hope so, for the sake of all the families that lost loved ones.
Wasn't that Ron's favourite nightclub?
They artificially make it political so that we continue to have to fight for our rights. They need people like us to take the fall and give a distraction from the actual real political issues that they themselves are perpetuating.
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There is no room for LGBTQ in Russel Voughts vision of America Thats why it was removed
Please remove the very political Mar-a-Lago. Overnight.
Did someone order an excavator? Or a few? Or a few thousand?
If only those officials were as concerned with swastikas
So cool that conservatives can politicize whatever they want and then just have it removed. The design is incredibly human.
Political speech by those painting in the crosswalks is protected by the first amendment. FL will give public employees a lot of overtime undoing this expression of free speech. Rednecks and GOP.
I'm surprised it's not all white to be honest.
One more reason to boycott anything and everything related to Florida. #PrayForAmerica
Prayers is possibly part of the problem.
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Shame on DeSantis. Someone needs to paint the governor's mansion pink! #Resist
Wimp not packin’ heat? Still lovin’ the footwear after all this time!
Just another reason, in the thousands at this pint, to never visit the USA again. I will never cross the US border again.
With our nation temper tantrum ... we don't deserve visitors on holiday.
I will cross the US border exactly once more, outbound, as soon as I have a workable plan.
A reminder that it wasn’t the LGBTQ+ community that made their own existence political.
This 👆
It’s absurd that they are so GD afraid of diversity🤡🤬
Is it a federal or state road or is it city street?
The pansies are so afraid of colors.
Well I guess nice of them to leave 'blackboards' for people to chalk over with colour and slogans. I suggest FUCK YOU in different colours.
Strange, looks like same street but somehow a grass median was installed?
yeah they must have done improvements including adding a planter strip next to the curb prior to the repainting. pretty tame rainbow crosswalk before btw.
Many things can change in eight years, especially when new owners (the state of Florida) take over a location and tear down the building there. Do you think that grass medians are usually naturally occurring parts of the landscape?
Here's (part of) what it says under the two photos at the top of the article: "On left, the crosswalk is shown in 2017. On right, the crosswalk is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 21. 2025. (Orlando Sentinel file photo, Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)"
If you look, you'll figure out the rainbow picture was taken soon after shooting as a memorial, the blackedned crosswalk is new.
DeSantis's next step will be to rename the nightclub from "Pulse" to "Pause"
Under cover of night repaint it. 🏳️🌈
Broad daylight! www.newsweek.com/florida-loca... Unafraid!
Wow, do they feel better, bigger, even more bigly? How much do they pay people to do this type of work? Did they abandon their humanity for this?
They probably think they're doing God's work.
Remember right wingers see you being gay as a political party because I don’t know their imbeciles I guess.
Time to make Florida the Rainbow State.
There was no reason for this except to antagonize a group of people. The crosswalk is in front of the The Pulse nightclub where the shooting took place. God forbid people have a memorial to remember a horrific incident. We have bigger issues to deal with like the insurance crisis than a crosswalk.
Florida men are apparently very insecure in their collective manhood. This is weakness.
oh if we’re removing “political” stuff then all the confederate statues will be removed too, right? RIGHT??
#Put_It_Back #Equality_For_All
What a powerful display of a fragile mind, fragile ego, and weak man.
Maybe some street artists can redo it.
Spray paint and dump cans of rainbow paint across every fucking street corner there. To hell with the sack of shits who painted over this. Fuck this shit hole country.
So petty and ridiculous. 'Political banners' from public roadways? — Doesn't that mean no MAGA /DJT signs, too?
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Nothing that a few variously colored buckets of paint wouldn't solve.
Hopefully they color the whole fkn neighborhood in response 🏳️🌈
Why do it at night? Ashamed of yourselves?
Appropriate question. And probable answer: ordered to do so. Correct answer: No, I refuse to eliminate the symbol of the horror that happened here, to remember and honor those who died because of hate towards their sexual orientation. And to not let it happen again.
Repaint it every fucking night then
Every fucking crossing in the city.
I believe that is happening as we speak.
good
apnews.com/article/flor...
Writers, go to work! If you know, you know.
I mean graf writers.
those evil bastards
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Oh no, not a rainbow! Colors are so scary!
Well, rainbows should be painted in strategic places under cover of night 🌈🌈🌈
If you live nearby I hear they sell paint at the hardware store.
Fuck Sean Duffy. He is just jealous that Pete Buttigieg was a better Transportation Secretary. Better than he will ever ever ever be.
Time to paint the fucking world with rainbows and pride flags. Specifically republican officials streets
Enough of the political messaging on the public right-of-ways.
Its a memorial to 40+ dead people killed in a mass shooting. Not exactly political messaging.
It can be fixed overnight.
And it was repainted (chalked) by residents overnight. Sometimes resistance shows up with crayons while wearing makeup
Put it back under cover of the night…
They put it back in broad daylight, actually. www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
so petty & regressive 🤮
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit
Make Casey DeSantis get on her knees and scrub the street. Unless she's "meeting " with her best friend..
Sad!
Repaint it ! Buy some bombspray and do it back ! Take back what's your's !
So that includes MAGA banners and lanyards and hats when worn by State workers as well then….?
It includes the entirety of the confederate states too ....
It’s part of the whole “erasing history” thing
Disgraceful
Seeing eye dogs don't understand what a crossing path is if it's painted in rainbow colours. Like paint any other surface with the pride colours but doing it on the crosswalks is a huge pain in the arse for the blind and hard of seeing.
I can see that, but from what I read it was cleared for accessibility before it was installed.
Doesn't change the fact that the dogs can't recognize it and refuse to walk over it.
Can you cite that? Because the only things I found were a 4 years old article saying it "might" be a problem, and another also from 4 years ago saying it wasn't.
paint it over and over and over. don't stop.
pretty sleazy. 40 dead, erased.
Ron Desantis is a ridiculous jerk
These folks just prove that they want to murder and wish they killed LGBTQIA people. All because they think they're compelled by God to do so but reality its cause of a hatred they have NO rational basis in holding. Religion is just the dumbass justification
I have a dream some good trouble citizens get them some spray paint and put it back- wearing antifa black during the night- like ninjas. And quick!
Facists.
People need some chalk stat
looks like Russia
Disgusting! What are they afraid of????
Grrrrrrrr
America has now seamlessly moved into the "not even thoughts-and-prayers for some groups" phase.
jesus fucking christ. my roomate at the time lost seven fucking friends from that shooting and orlando should be better than this. im fucking livid.
Orlando didn’t do this the state of Florida did it.
gotcha ( i read the rest of the article)
Disgusting. And stupid.
This was literally a memorial! Removing it is actually a desecration! The time will come, when other memorials, of those who supported this desecration will not be honored!
And they had to do it at night in secret, like the gutless cowards they are. #defundFDOT
Does that mean they will rename cross walks?
Make DeSantis and his minions at FDOT alligator food! TONIGHT!!!
Same shit going on down in Key West, but their populace is pushing back hard. No rainbow crosswalk removals, yet, in Cayo Hueso . . .
What’s Sean Duffy’s next move to make transportation safer? He’s afraid of the NY Subway and road-painted memorials to victims of mass shootings. Will he decide art in US airports has to be bland and only celebrate a white-washed view of history?!
