Anti gay signs
Protesters gather around home with anti-homosexual signs
TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa collective has ignited in disagreement over yard signs that denounce homosexuality.
Thursday, those in support of the LGBTQ community did a protest in front of the home with the anti-homosexuality yard signs.
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“Obviously, this individual has the right of free speech, and so act we," said Identify Pride, the object organizer. "Jesus called us to cherish each other and love our neighbor and putting signs in your yard that are hateful and discriminatory is the opposite of that."
Christopher Jones and Terry Geasland, the gay couple that lives across the street, were happily surprised to observe the group outside.
"Ever since the news story aired, we have been getting a lot of support from people all over the country, and it has been nice because God is for everyone and if God is love, what is this across the street," Chris Jones said. "This is about oneness and mutual respect of others in Tulsa."
2 Works for You also spoke with the house owner who posted the anti-homosexual signs in his yard.
“Homosexuality brings a
About 27 years after “No U-turn” signs were posted along Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake in an attempt to retain gay men from cruising the neighborhood to pick up other gay men, members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community united two Los Angeles city councilmembers on Monday, June 10, as they took down the last two remaining “No U-turn” signs that were put up in the 1990s.
The removal of the signs took place at Griffith Park Boulevard and Fernwood Road, which straddles Los Angeles Metropolis Council Districts 4 and 13.
Getting rid of the signs was long overdue for many, including Donovan Daughtry, a gay dude who five years ago moved to Silver Lake, known as being LGBTQ-friendly.
Two years ago, Daughtry reached out to L.A. Town Councilmember Nithya Raman’s office about the signs after learning about them from a podcast hosted by Chris Cruse, founder of queermaps.org, an online archive of 150 years of queer history in L.A. On Monday, moments after he helped take down the last sign, Daughtry said, “This is a small endeavor, but just to have a sign that I would own to walk past with my dog every day be taken down meant a lot.”
Before the signs came down, city elected officials and
Los Angeles removes traffic signs used to 'target and persecute' gay community
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Officials this week removed the last traffic signs from a Los Angeles neighborhood to cleanse the area of its anti-gay past.
The signs that read "No cruising. No U-turns. Midnight to 6 am" were posted around the Silver Lake neighborhood in 1997, with the intent to curb gay men from roaming the streets to link up, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Just in moment for PRIDE month, the signs were retired this week.
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"Los Angeles has a rich history of welcoming the LGBTQIA+ community, but there has also been real and present homophobia — which at times has been inscribed into the city’s physical spaces, as with these no-U-turn signs," Councilmember Nithya Raman said in a statement.
In the belated 90s, gay men sometimes relied on printed guidebooks that listed public are
'No cruising' signs in Silver Lake used to target Gay community in '90s removed
SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The last remaining street signs that were used to target the Gay community in Silver Lake in the '90s were removed Monday.
City leaders along with local Diverse organizations and society members gathered neighboring Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion Way to take down the last several "No U-Turn" and "No Cruising" signs, which were installed in the '90s when neighbors complained about a lgbtq+ bar in the area. They were essentially used to prevent people in the gay people from meeting up with other lgbtq+ people.
"I was also surprised that these U-turn signs were still up, and at first, they seem a small ... 'Oh, ok, it's just a no U-turn sign,' but when you learn the history of it, and you realize that these were used to profile same-sex attracted people, it's so important that we have these removed," said Silver Lake Neighborhood Councilmember Maebe A. Girl.
The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council voted to dismantle the signs in 2011.