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LGBT+ residents and members of the community Miami BeachFlorida, running again after the state’s transport department Removed a rainbow crosswalk in the city.
Pride Crosswalk, Which was kept in the center of Miami Beach, was removed by a crew of Florida Transport Department on Sunday evening. Miami Beach Commissioner Christon Rosen Gonzalaz, who opposed the decision, told Independent The expulsion “shocked our community.”
“For tourists around the world for residents of Miami Beach and our LGBTQ+ tourists, please know that it was not our decision to remove this crosswalk, it was a florida situation, and we will continue to welcome and involve everyone who goes to Miami Beach,” he said.
It marks the latest expulsion of a rainbow crosswalk after the Florida Transport Department issued a memo in June, which was banned by road art, which “includes social, political or ideological messages or images and does not serve the purpose of traffic control.”
Miami Beach Commissioner Alex Fernandez told Independent,
He said, “This crosswalk, it represents a lot to so many people who have tolerated everything for decades, from workplace discrimination to the stigma of HIV and AIDS, the removal from military, housing inequality, certainly for a long battle for marriage equality.” “It was a difficult fight for a tough victory, which we, gay community, to be marginalized, to be visible, to join, to be recognized.”
He said, “To see our own government, our own state government which to save us, to raise all our people, to waste taxpayers’ money and to include brick, our symbols of our inclusion, our symbols of security, our symbol, it was the best, the worst, the worst.”
A drag artist told local outlet WSVN Crosswalk “represents blood, sweat and tears.”
The artist said, “I really worked so hard on this pavement for many years and struggled to come here and share and share art, shared my craft, so it tears my heart that it is going away to see, but we are going to fight, we are not going anywhere,” the artist said.
The state order to remove road art is in compliance with a federal instruction, Florida Transport Secretary Jered Paradu said in August, according to this, according to this. Spectrum News 13Transport Secretary Sean Dafi released Memorandum On 1 July, states are kept free from “distraction with” political messages “with” political messages of any nature “to ensure the intersections and crosswalks.
Florida Governor Ron Desantis also said in August that officials are removing art from political spectrum.
“Most of this stuff, I mean, they had to remove a ‘back the blue’, they had to remove some other things, and so it spreads different things, but we have taken policy decisions in Florida that we are not going to use the roads for that purpose,” said Dentis.
Independent Florida Transport Department has contacted for comment.
It comes after a month after a month Authorities removed a rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse Night Club of OrlandoWhere a gunman killed 49 people in the most deadly attack on LGBT+ people in the history of America in 2016. Orland mayor Buddy Dyer asked the crosswalk to remove “callus” and “cruel political act”.
Dyer said in a statement, “We have been destroyed to know that the Pulse Memorial Crosswalk on the state Orange Avenue overnight.” “At the time of our country’s largest collective shooting, any auxiliary safety data, or without discussion, this callus action to remove the part of a memorial is a cruel political function.”