This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down. The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
The Florida Department of Transportation removed the painted crosswalk earlier this month and has since stationed officers and crews at the site to stop the community from re-creating it with chalk.
The officers need to get a real job that requires real work.
On the bright side, they apparently solved ALL of the rapes and murders in Florida so now law enforcement has all of this spare time to camp out at crosswalks and bust people using sidewalk chalk.
They gave up on violent crimes when prohibition enforcement became profitable. Your local police didn’t buy a tank and helicopter to find rapists. There’s no money in it.
Oh I know. I was being sarcastic. You’re absolutely right though.
Signs now read “Defacing Roadway Prohibited” and even “Defacing Sidewalk Prohibited,” meaning mourners can’t even chalk nearby sidewalks.
On Friday night, a man was actually arrested for leaving chalk footprints at the memorial. A judge later threw out the charges for lack of probable cause, the state is deploying police to prevent grieving communities from drawing rainbows in chalk.
FDOT crews wash away chalk memorials as soon as they appear. Police presence has been constant. What was once a symbol of love and remembrance is now patrolled and erased.
We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.
The Divided States of America are now officially a Fascist Government.
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there are the immigrant police and the rainbow chalk police there seems to be something about disregarding 'serve and protect' to be the boss is sad
Every city in America should now paint/chalk or inlay a rainbow crosswalk as a memorial and act of unified solidarity. Take it to your city council people
Sorry, but not here. This is a fascist stronghold. There's no way in hell an 80% red town in an 80% red county would approve anything like that.
I’m thinking about putting a rainbow rainbow at the end of my driveway in my red town, red county in leaning red district. Looking for to reactions 😈
Here in Palm Springs we don't use chalk. The City paints the crosswalks for us.
Exactly.
I hope people keep coloring the sidewalks and crosswalks until it is just too expensive to keep patrolling them. I want to hear about masked teams with paint rollers screeching up in unmarked vans, jumping out and painting, and screeching off into the night.
People should start chalking crosswalks all over the area. Move around. Draw the one’s watching that walk all over the place.
💯
Pulse all the sidewalks
Exactly! And maybe - not just crosswalks, maybe telephone poles, traffic light poles, if I owned a business or building nearby I think I'd get a big rainbow awning.
Oh we are!
Some Ghandi-style civil disobedience
Imagine taking a job as a peace officer and then defending a rapist felon insurrectionist bigot’s hate.
How about all across the country? We are plotting (somewhere in Portland, OR).
This is the way for sure
Oh yeah for sure make these pigs jobs so much harder.
There are so many more of us than them. We collectively aren't restrained by limited shifts or overtime. We can run them ragged without breaking a sweat. 🙃
ABSOLUTELY.
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Oh I can’t wait for people to make all those cops go into early retirement 😂🤷🏻♂️
Yea... but with chalk paint...😏🤫🫣
Every crosswalk for a 1/2 mile around the site. When it is made perm again, all crosswalks in the area are rainbow.
No. PAINT them. It costs more to remove paint.
If only they gave this much shit on preventing shcool shooting over guarding a crosswalk from chalk
That’s the crazy part. So keep gun laws, but create anti chalk laws?
Well you know, chalking streets cost more lives then guns each year, got to take down big chalk /s
It’s because they were gay. They hate anything that isn’t straight and white.
The regime must have all had traumatic experiences in schools and possibly universities when they had to listen to teachers and professors using chalk boards.
Let's rainbow our sidewalks and streets!!
Then how about the state placing a memorial at the intersection on one corner so that it does not interfere with crosswalks or signals or traffic; just a memorial for those who died. Nothing illegal about that if the space is city owned.
Do they not have anything else to do then monitor chalk and harass
They're not breaking any laws.
Maintenance and construction crews use temporary, water-soluble chalk paint all the time to mark pavement to identify essential items and issues.
In the Bible, the rainbow is an assurance of God’s steadfast love. They’re against God’s love?
They can try, but they absolutely cannot stop the neighborhood community from repainting the #PulseNightclub crosswalk memorial. Even 24/7 patrols don't last forever. If they remove it, civilians will keep repainting it eventually. Full Stop. It's necessary #CivilDisobednience and #GoodTrouble.
The cruelty is the point.
Meanwhile, real crimes like mass shootings continue to happen. And, RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
The crosswalk looks so pretty as a rainbow. It’s also a lovely tribute to lives that were cruelly cut short. Why the fuck can’t folks just admire the beauty of the rainbow rather than waste time and $ policing a crime where there isn’t one.
Because we’re a fasist country now.
Don’t lose hope my friend! 😊
I would say that the country is run by fascists but plenty of us are fighting back. For one good example; the brave folks that risk arrest every time they restore the rainbow. No, we’re not a fascist country yet and we will never be as long as we stand our ground. I will stand my ground until death!
Trump regime breaks laws that actually matter non stop every day, why should we care bout your silly crosswalk law
Now Deathsantis is afraid of rainbows and chalk. What a fucking coward. Impeach him now.
He wants to erase all evidence of queer people
Someone needs to laser project a rainbow on the crosswalk every damn night. And while they’re at it, project it on DeSantis’ house.
Ah, Florida, what an enlightened state! Sorry, TSA won't let me go there to visit. Have to find a more thoughtful place for a vacation!
Would love for them to use paint! Will drive DeSatan nuts!
Add some glitter to the mix as well 🙏🏼🤗🕊️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌬️🌊🌬️🌊💙💙
Great use of taxes 🙄
At what point do 'the people' withdraw any respect and co-operation with the police, border security, ICE and the military ? Alongside the authoritarian horrors, all this makes the USA look utterly pathetic and unreliable on almost every level and function.
I've never had any respect, with the exception of the military. And even that is getting thinner.
That point was passed in 2016.
MAGA follows the teachings of satan
And their hatred & paranoia about LGBTQ folks.
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As in anti-American enemy of the people nazi dictatorship. My favorite chant is: No trump No kkk no Fascist usa.
People wiping shit on the walls at the Capital (on January 6th) is acceptable and pardonable. Marking a crosswalk and sidewalks with chalk as a memorial is a crime. Got it.
The community should just overrun the city with chalk rainbows EVERYWHERE. Put down more chalk than they can keep up with.
Project a rainbow onto the crosswalk from a nearby building. Erase DIS, muddafuggas!!
We need to normalize the idea of getting arrested for fighting injustice. Most cases are just going to be dropped. We need to be making the regime waste their money and people on efforts like chalk drawing control. There are much worse they could be doing.
It is meant to send out the message that the lives lost have no value and are undeserving of memorialization. It’s vile and cruel to the innocents who were slaughtered, the wounded, and all their families.
THIS is what the FL state govt decides to spend time and money on?! When they have about a thousand different legitimate issues, like a tiny budget for dealing with disaster relief?!
Someone needs to laser project a rainbow on the crosswalk every damn night. And while they’re at it, project it on DeSantis’ house.
Regime*
Project the rainbow with lights. Won’t work in the day, but it will at night.
Food coloring. Let them help spread the love.
It’s now a symbol of dictatorship and repression, and insult to those who oppose this authoritarian regime.
If only they would put this much effort in fighting the issues that harm the public! Horses' behinds all of them!
correction: What was once a symbol of love and remembrance is now a symbol of resistance, and should be replicated everywhere at every possible opportunity.
We will never set foot in Flori-duh again. Our tourist dollars are going to somewhere civilized.
In a way I’m kind of glad Desatan is doing this. The more they do irrational, extreme shit like trying to crack down on sidewalk chalk, the more it breaks into normie consciousness that something bad is going down.
Put a sign up in front to tell FSPD, OPD, and DeSantis that says (in rainbow colors) “GROW THE FUCK UP.” Professionally on metal, mounted on the roof.
I thought I saw Desatan had people (safety vests on ) digging the whole thing up last night…..horrible sight. I hope it was ai or whatever & not true.
Chalk 😲‼️
There are people in every city who don't have enough food to eat, but please, let's devote a lot of money and energy in making sure that people don't draw in chalk on the sidewalk.
Well you all got a new assignment Start chalking those sidewalks up
How about giant banners that adorn the sides of the local buildings with the faces of each person who died? I mean, if the Orange can put his face on all those buildings in Pyongyang on the Potomac, it seems okay to put those faces on the buildings near the crosswalk.
I’ll say it again. Great idea!!👍
Great idea👍
It's the equivalent of "Say Their Name". If their short existence can't be celebrated with a rainbow crosswalk, then how could the right complain about a banner when their Dear Leader is doing it? We could crowd source it.
But don't you dare touch their Confederate memorials!
Children drawing hopscotch games will be trafficked to the wealthy pedophiles within the government.
Can't stop people from wearing an image of the crosswalk from walking back and forth within the time light cycles. It makes an even better point.
Imagine being such a delicate little snowflake in a state that has so many real problems. DeSantis really loves to put his insecurities on display.
What you need is to rally up a large, armed posse, drive/distract the pigs away, have people paint over the crosswalks and then have armed protesters guard the crosswalks 24/7, chasing away anyone who tries to erase it or arrest anyone present When the cops escalate, the proteste escalate. 🤷 Simple
What a "perfectly good" way to use taxpayers' money. They must be so happy.
Obviously because there's no actual crime happening in Florida... 🙄
Green flag to criminals in Florida- your cops are mighty distracted!
Bring forth the chaos!
What a waste of money, all to fuel the hatred and vitriol and homophobia of DeSantis and his followers.
Gross misuse of law-enforcement officers' time!
This is ridiculous. Memorials should stand until nature wears them away or their purpose eradicated.
In addition to this one that has our attention, the FDOT ordered all crosswalks in the state returned to original condition. See Gainesville for another example.
Is it the state then that controls the town roads in Florida? Where I live the town maintains the town roads so this is so weird to me.
Snowflakes can’t handle a rainbow
That's 49 AMERICANS who were slaughtered in a FOREIGN TERRORIST ATTACK by a young man who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS - the deadliest on US soil since 9/11. Apparently, the memorial must be erased at taxpayer expense because the victims were mostly LGBTQ+ and/or Latino. Fuck all Republicans.
I live in Florida and it’s awful. Unintentional consequences: Checkered flag crosswalk at Daytona Speedway covered over too! MAGA not mad yet! Haven’t heard about it yet probably!
Not only Orlando, but communities all around the state - the threat is remove the rainbows or face withdrawal of state transportation funding. And if the state removes the rainbows, cities must pay for it. Our city told them 'you do it because we won't'.
This is so incredibly upsetting! People should be able to mourn in their own way and have a beautiful memorial. It is so appropriate. What are we going to do about this administration and the control part of it?! It’s so dangerous.
I say take over AAAAALL the crosswalks with rainbows Keep em busy
Gee… guess it doesn’t matter what the majority of citizens want anymore. Shameful.
distract them with donuts and bring in ten kids to colour
😡...so much attention to non-issues while erasing American Freedoms...
what do you expect from Racist Ronny and his GLAMOUR wife.
It will return.
Never trust anyone who doesn't like rainbows. They are NOT the lovers, the dreamers, and me. Fascists make Kermit sad.
ACAB Presumably the egregious clustering of cops at this location would mean there are many other crosswalks without cops around: Start painting each one rainbow every single night.
Great idea!
There are always more oppressed than oppressors and more places to paint than can be patrolled Stay strong and they can't win en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of...
Interesting ... thank you for posting the link
💯 judge already threw one case out! No fear! Wear them out! Orlando must be a crime free-for-all, right now! Insufficient police to handle real crime!!
Great idea! 🌈
I fucking hate Ron DickSantis!! He is always a fucking asshole. I do feel sorry for his kids though.
Chalk the whole damn town.
I remember a few years back posting Putin could never be President of a democracy because he's too thin-skinned to tolerate free speech. I never foresaw that in ANY American POTUS would become that. Yet, here Trump and his maniac crew are.
Someone set up a projector in a nearby window or something to project it onto the sidewalk
Haven’t you heard? They are the ultimate cancel culture and they canceled woke
Hey how about getting together with friends and colored chalk to create more Pulse crosswalks ⁉️
Self proclaimed maga alpha’s are so intimidated by rainbow colors.
Why is a pride memorial so upsetting to these evil people? This doesn’t hurt anyone!
This is one of the dumbest fucking hills to die on for the GOP of FL.
I'd definitely say de santis has issues that he can get help with and perhaps target more important issues.
Focusing on what matters...to idiots
It has Steven Miller allllll over it…..
Sure, that’s good use of their time, said sarcastically.
Sad!
Rainbow paint every other crosswalk in the city.
Damn desantis and his regime!
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Local businesses can do some light-projection. Great idea!
If a business near it would do the light projection 😍
If I lived there, I'd be knocking on some doors....
someone will get to it with spray paint....we are a patient lot
Chalk is cheap. More and more people need to join in the civil disobedience.
and they are getting paid overtime to "protect" it
What a waste of money! Hiring people to make sure they don’t color with chalk.
Fucking desantis and christian evangelicals!
Very sad.
An artist needs to create/install a large prism atop the Pulse Nightclub to shine rainbows onto the street and sidewalk. Alternatively, projecting rainbows from Pulse would be cheap, easy and handy. In the meantime, supporters could use small prisms to make rainbows on the public sidewalks.
Paint rainbows on all the crosswalks in the area, leave that blank for them to stare at!
My personal driveway in Indiana. If they won't allow it in Florida, the rest of the country will speak up for you. We will remember.
What a beautiful gesture. I will do this tomorrow when it is sunny.
The people pay the taxes, they own it. Fuck desantis fuck trunp.
Back the blue. What could go wrong?
Ofc
With tax payer money to boot.
Orlando...Cocaine neighbor to Cocaine Daddy Miami. Shouldn't they be spending their time chasing the blow in the wind ? Oh yeah, they just stand & inhale I totally forgot.
They should rainbow EVERY other crosswalk in FL. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈
Wait 'em out, then go right back in
Yes it’s sad I agree 💯 But it also belies their weakness.
What’s next? Make it illegal to be gay or remain closeted? There are hundreds if not thousands of gay people in government (including Congress). What is the point here of intimating gays. To please evangelicals?
Yes, guys, that is the game plan. Assume the worst.
trump is marching people right back into the closet.
If he has his way those closets will have gas
This is just a shame. What was a rainbow crosswalk harming? I'm so ashamed of this country right now. Or, I should say the leaders of this country.☹️
Perhaps Florida’s law enforcement should, I don’t know, focus on fucking crime…
Didn’t you know? Only blue states have crime… 🙄
Nobody tell me anything anymore...
DuhSantis playing to the MAGA base.
Start asking the officers that are stationed there "Is this what you went into law enforcement for? Chalk police?" Then every crime that is committed in the city loudly let residents know where police resources (guarding a sidewalk) are being spent.
It’s really just become a battle of wills hasn’t it?
Don't worry, the resistance is strong.
The state of Florida needs to BACK OFF and sit down.
Good news…the state just list
We are not a serious country anymore. If we were a couple, we’d be getting a divorce
@nikkifried.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social THIS IS WHY FL MUST VOTE DESANTIS AND EVERY UNLAWFUL AG, ELECTED GOP OFFICIAL OUT IN 2026! FL IS FOLLOWING FOTUS FACIST, AUTHORITARIAN ACTIONS ON CITIZENS/PROTESTERS!
Can we start putting them in more locations?
Every year here in the SF Bay Area there is a sidewalk chalk competition. People gather joyfully! All ages in the competition. Would be a shame if they started one of those in Florida!
That's authoritarianism for sure. There's nothing they can do to police the weather. Let it rain, rain, rain. There will still be rainbows. Try to enforce that!
This administration has proven over and over that they lack compassion, heart or brains.
The Rainbow Crosswalk isn't hurting anybody. What DeSantis is doing is costing the taxpayers $$ by having it 'removed' after it's been chalk-painted. Someone needs to ask him IN PUBLIC what's his end-game, why is he trying to cover up a memorial? He's another vile politician w/ a big ego & no soul.
How crass. And cruel.
Protect the crosswalks! But kids getting shot? Pfft!
This right here. Not to mention that the state erased a memorial to people who died in a mass shooting.
Exactly.
heartless
Well, according to deranged maga and gop, guns don’t kill people.
They’re morons.
I want out
they already painted over a BLM mural in St Pete, arrested to priests, painted over one that kids painted by their school and the murals actually slowed traffic and made it safer for the kids to cross there, Rhonda Santis is a half size cunt
He lacks the depth and the warmth
and a soul
Christians chalk bible verses on sidewalks. Wonder if those get washed away now too?
Did any of Florida's LBQT community vote for a Republican? Ask them why.
Breathtakingly petty. Truly pathetic.
Pathetic !
It is sad. It also shows how weak the government is there.
😩😡
Maybe time for folks to chalk or paint every other crosswalk in the city then?
The Orlando LGBTQ community is very strong. They have people rechalking the crosswalk as soon as DOT and police leave.
Wondering how well mass-produced rainbow peel-and-stick crosswalks would work. Takes minutes to put down and creators can go to the next one. Not as fun as chalk, but faster and more annoying.
The cops can't be everywhere at once. We should start carrying rainbow chalk. Chalk EVERY intersection we can chalk. There aren't enough cops to monitor every street, every crosswalk. Overwhelm them.
They are so weird, watching a crosswalk. I mean really?
Someone should stress test this - write “thin blue line” under a crosswalk & fill in one section in blue.
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The GOP takes the Pulse attack very personally. The perp was a DOWNLOW CLOSETED fundamentalist who was dating a drag/trans performer while married to a woman.
Reminder: Anything, anywhere, can have an innocent chalk rainbow on it, and there are only so many fascist enforcers in the city. Go wherever they aren't, and make rainbows. Second reminder: Rainbow glitter is easy to buy and impossible to get rid of.
Florida is whack! Governor is whack! Don’t say gay… Why does that bother him so much?
What cause did they give to remove it in the first place, and what crime is being committed now? I know, I know, being too woke, but that is not actually a crime. What law do they claim is being violated? This is what makes it a police state, enforcing “laws” based on the dictators likes & dislikes.
The order originally came from Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy probably per tRump's request.
Thank you. Brought to us by the same people who want to re-rename army bases and re-erect statues of civil war traitors so we don’t forget history. I can’t imagine how hurtful this is to people who lost loved ones that night.
They only want us to remember a history that works for the regime.Rewrite the Smithsonian;alter the numbers coming out of the Treasury;re frame Putin's war to blame Ukraine;blur & negate Epstein Files;make immigrants criminals;it goes on & on. It's a frightening dystopian game plan,well on its way.
Petty little man
They can TRY to erase what happened but this pathetic,weak attempt will not work!🌈
❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🩶 STAY STRONG, STAY LOUD, STAY PROUD
dont they have anything better to do?
That nightclub was targeted and people killed BECAUSE the shooter deemed they gay. its the very reason they died. this is so sick!!!
It's abominable that the state of FL cares more about a lifestyle choice than the lives of actual people. bsky.app/profile/wayn...
I’m heartbroken for the victims and their families.
Disgusting petty people. What are they afraid of? This is what you police?
Adapt or die
Or flee the country. Sorry.
They should start chalking all the crosswalks in a mile radius.
Sounds like a bit of distance splatball and run tactics are needed.
paint the entire area with rainbows
This is what happens when we make people others, and others lesser
Orlando...well, no wonder, that's in the FLORIDA REICH...they're in proper goose step with the LAWLESS, CORRUPT, FOURTH REICH with its HEART OF DARKNESS...
It’s so FUCKED UP. It’s meant to redirect our attention, but no less fucked up.
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The Entire Maga Movement Is Built On Hate....
and petty, rampant viciousness.
Another pub shthole
They are sad & small men. It's not fair, but what if the rainbow wasn't permanently in 1 place? What if every week it moves to a new location in the surrounding area? I don't see how they could stop anyone from sneaking out at night & doing other locations (unless there are traffic cams)
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#ChalkEveryWalk bc they can’t patrol all of them!
So law enforcement/military are gardening in DC and keeping people from decorating the street with chalk in Orlando. While little children are shot up at school. This really is the absolute most stupid and wasteful and hateful and insane “administration”
remember when the LGB were like oh this just a Trans thing, so we will be quiet and say and do nothing......every trans person...
Desantis’ bigotry is as foolish and wasteful as Trump’s bigotry.
I believe I saw them removing it.
Once the Mad King is deposed, his White House ballroom and desecrated Rose Garden will be the target of reversal by millions of Americans.
Yes. The right-wing MAGA types feel threatened by a colored sidewalk reminding them of an attack that caused the deaths of many. Why? They don't feel guilty for having the same attitude of the shooter, but they don't want everyone to know or be reminded! So, DeSantis will clean it up for them.
I thought 6 colour rainbows were just some weird Dora the Explorer thing. Apparently not. 7 colours in a rainbow and purple isn't one of them.
They’ll likely spend hours removing the rainbows while leaving the potholes untouched
Following the footsteps of Hungary. Seriously, read up on the downfall of Hungary. It's an eerie eye opener if you don't know. (But, by now, you really should.)
In Czech Republic there was a wall dedicated to John Lennon. Soldiers painted over it several times. it always returned.they eventually left it and also communism fell. Or was it Budapest? It was a long time ago when I went to both cities.
Yes it was Prague.
Someone really should draw religious images & see what they do.
Crosses I rainbow colors. 🤭
Wow they’re so pathetic 🤬
I think we need to rainbow Chalk desantis' entire road outside his home. Keep chalking Florida!!
Paintball his house. Make him taste the rainbow.
This is great news. It means Orlando has no other crime, nothing at all for their police force to do, and plenty of cash on hand because all repairs are done. How blissful it must be in crime-free, well-funded, no-potholes, perfect Orlando.
Colour every sidewalk in rainbow colours.
The world is laughing at them
Cause that's really good use of taxpayer money, is it? WOW. Just mind-boggling. My heart goes out to all the families whose loved ones were represented in that sidewalk. They've been harmed by homophobia, again. So very sad and awful.
Yes, let’s throw time and money at a walkway !
The next step is to outlaw funerals for gay people, and to outlaw their burial in cemeteries. If you don’t believe me, read about the Upstairs Lounge. Start painting the sidewalks everywhere. Mix rubbing alcohol with food coloring and dye the concrete. Everywhere.
📣Calling all Vigilante Rainbow Crosswalk Warriors!!!📣 Descend on every street corner in Orlando. Paint them all!! Then on to Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville. These goosestepping brownshirts can't be everywhere all at once.
Looks like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been trying to get all 50 states to remove special crosswalk designs. 😡 Personally, I think they improve visibility and help serve as useful landmarks for drivers.
Maybe work on air traffic safety?
That would definitely be a better use resources!
Like the German Nazi party before them, it's clear the American Republican Party is gaining power by harnessing hatred. The Fourth Reich will be no more successful than the Third but those minions who helped create it will be among those crushed under its wheels. Small consolation to the rest of us
Agreed. The Fourth Reich is the GOP.
One more thing to chalk up to idiotic intolerance.
The party of thin skins and narrow minds insists everything is their way. Florida becomes more facist every day.
Of course it has. They want to erase anything that pertains to marginalized communities. They don’t like the community that pulse served and they want to erase the memory of the people one of them took too soon. It’s disgusting but exactly what they do
Ron DeSatan has his priorities… GOP is an evil party.
Then suggest an alternative. A statue of sculpture, some sort of memorial that they'll leave alone
No such thing exists. Unless it's a statue of the 🍊💩🤡 himself.
Sounds like a great place to take a stsnd for Stonewall 2.0.
I walked across this a few times. I still love my wife. Shaq played in Florida. He likes rainbows. Maybe DeSantis can consider this a tribute to him instead
Disgusting😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
So, what gives FDOT jurisdiction over the streets and sidewalks? This is in Orlando, wouldn’t these roads be under the city or perhaps county oversight? Does the state fund the repair of those roads?
Those INCOMPETENT MEDIOCRE REPTILE BRAINED Republicans just can NOT TOLERATE dissent! WHY? After other people clearly explain THEIR SIDE to them~ they begin to feel really FOOLISH for listening to & believing anything THE FELON says bc he’s always LYING to CON them! It’s hard for them.
Don't be sad, to this queer it just looks, well, pathetic. Weak, cowardly...ridiculous. They're afraid of our joy, which can never be erased.
This is some shit.
“It must be a pretty fragile system if it can be brought down by a few bits of chalk.”
Haven't you heard? Chalk makes kids gay! Apparently even looking at chalk can make you gay!
We live in a state where they think books turn people gay.
Barbara Streisand to the white courtesy phone, Streisand, white courtesy phone.
And my gay uncle and his husband who live in Florida voted for this fuck.
Ridiculous!
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It is what republicans do, they destroy
Fuck Florida, DeSantis, Orlando.all.of their cops and everybody who thinks.what they're doing is okay. Time to.wipe.out MAGA...death to tyranny!
Give the state that one and go paint twenty others. They take that one too, then go paint twenty more.
BAN THE CHALK BUT GUNS ARE GREAT! these fucking idiots
Hey, don't fuck over the Left just to "own the right". Guns may be our last hope. 'Under no pretext' and all that
So petty.
I've always viewed "pick your battles" as a sign of maturity. Leave it to little napoleon DeSantis to pick rainbow crosswalks.
One day. This will be over. youtu.be/2rd8VktT8xY?...
Why so they stop talking about the criminal governor so take it out on a memorial that honors good people
Protect the most vulnerable of community’s @blacktranstexas.bsky.social Has been hospitalized from a physical attack from transphobic hate. They need help getting a wheel chair after leaving hospital.
If you’re wondering what does this mean? This means to send them money to get a wheel chair. As a trans ally we all have our part to do.
Frankly pathetic that FL GOP politicians are this obsessed about destroying a memorial for innocent victims. Wish they put this much energy into ACTUALLY making life better for their constituents instead of "virtue-signaling" how bigoted and prejudiced they are.
DeSantis has a real problem with the LGBTQ community. A couple of years ago, he came up with the "Don't Say Gay" campaign.
Is he gay? It’s usually the extreme homophobics who end up being gay. He should just come out of the closet already.
I suspect as much! Have you seen those white boots he wears?😂 But seriously, he doesn't seem to have as big of a problem with other demographics — he's obsessed!
The go-go boots was my tipoff.
Ya know 🤷🏼♀️ I'm not trying to be mean, just he's f'ing with us & I'm f'ing right back with him! Otherwise, I could care less if he walks around with peacock feathers up his ass! 😂 None of my business!
Lil man syndrome. The boots add a couple inches where he thinks it matters. Bad enough he worked at Guantanamo bay
It's at least partially about the height, but why do they have to be white?
Those white boots are what the fisher folks wear on the Bay here. Oysterers, fishers, shrimpers wear them.When you're shucking oysters or cleaning fish, the white boots provide protection and slip prevention on the soles. Ideally, DeSatan deserves slick bottom white boots.
Skinheads wore black boots with white laces, but i suspect he’s trying to create a wild west sheriff vibe
Far be it from me to criticize people's fashion statements. He's just too ridiculous!
Yeah, and i wear cowboy boots in surgery. Not for fashion but because the heels help with low back pain during long cases, and water and puncture proof. The extra height is a downside for me, though.
Yeah he's a closet fag
His relationship with his wife does seem kind of odd. I never forget that one time she said: "When I was sick, he took *my* kids to school." Sounded like, she saw it as a favor that a friend would do. Not as, he's the dad & it's supposed to be 50/50.
Actually, the target of that piece of SHIT, DeSantis.
Well, who needs to remember gay victims. They don’t exist. Disgusting what’s going on right now.
That's a perfectly valid and effective use of state taxpayers' money...NOT.
Which calls for citizen action. #PaintTheStreets
Time for protestors to gather daily with rainbow outfits and rainbow flags and signs. Enough to constantly walk around the block, so they can’t be accused of loitering.
🙄 how about protecting innocent people and children from gun violence instead of protecting an inanimate crosswalk from CHALK??!!
I suspect the rainbow painted band shelter at Lake Eola will be next
DeSantos is a worse trump.
God I hate America right now
Totally about control and hatred for something they made political that has absolutely nothing to do with safety. Is being even more hateful what he learned in church today?
What are Republicans so afraid of? What in the world was this memorial doing to demoralize the state of Florida? We are casually floating into madness
Can someone with a projector show the original on the street?
The anti rainbow crosswalk folks are unable to articulate any harm it causes. They are hate filled and want gay folks to go back in the closet and become invisible again.
Draw/chalk rainbow crosswalks at every single one in the area surrounding this. It’s good trouble and keeping the memory of the fallen alive when FL fascists try to erase their memory
I think i read that if you soak the chalk in water, it will swell up and can then be strategically launched 👀
It’s a fucking rainbow!! WTF is wrong with these people? Dont answer that!! Just rainbow 🌈 everything!!
I did ours immediately when this happened. I think it’s an excellent idea
LGBTQ+ people are responsible for school shootings, sexual assault, pedophilia, chasing, capturing, confining, & exporting people, robbing people of their health & health insurance, mass murdering, & decimating the Constitution. Oh, wait, that's the regime & sycophants, not LGBTQ+ people. Hypocricy.
I completely approve💜🙏🏻🏳️🌈
David Zinn💖💚💜
I'm obsessed with his videos.
Same!
Me too. Magical!🤩
How’s That Touchy-Feely Let It All Hang Out Approach Working Out?
Start painting every crosswalk in the city, hell the whole state. Even in fascist-controlled florida they do not have the men to guard every street.
DeSATAN is scared of 🌈🌈🌈🤣😂
What a sick fucking country
Do MAGA morons have nothing better to do now than to stand guard over crosswalks?
ALL crosswalks should be painted in rainbow colors. Let's see the feds try to crush that many across the US
Pathetic
S'like a scene out of "Men in Tights". Troopers dressed like assault forces becoming playground monitors. The folks who live there will prolly just wait 'till they go away and do it again because it's what the folks who live there WANT.
This is idiotic! WTF
It’s appalling to witness the lengths to which these infantile petty bigots will go to defend the hate they embody. Just pathetic. They’re ignorant beyond words. No wonder they side with Putin. He’s a petty ignorant bigot too, just better trained in weaponized disinformation and warfare.
It’s happening in Sarasota too. We have art filled sidewalks throughout the downtown area, and they are all being painted over. What’s up? Art is one of Sarasota’s draws… and yet it’s being wiped out. You’re stupid, DeSantis, really stupid.
The alpha males of Florida are terrified of rainbows. They're horrified by them. After it rains, these big strong he-men won't go outside, for fear they'll look up and see one and will instantly be turned gay. True story.
Truly vile
Do it somewhere else. They can’t be everywhere
This was my thought too. Target a different location every night. Keep them guessing.
#CrueltyAndDisrespectIsThePoint
Assholes!