Woke California: U-Turn Signs Are Homophobic. And Stuff.
“Street signs that officials said previously targeted LGBTQ community members were taken down from a Silver Lake neighborhood Monday.”
I don’t know about you, but I am ten kinds of over every drop of woke. Every last drop of it. This latest out of California is no exception.
Apparently, the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles decided that standard “No U-Turn” signs are ‘homophobic’ and removed them.
BREAKING: LA City Council members have removed "No U-Turn" traffic signs in a gay neighborhood.
They say the signs were homophobic.
No, this is not satire. pic.twitter.com/yadflyo588
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Presumably, U-turns are still illegal, but now, no one knows. Not that it matters because this is Gruesome Newsom’s Cali, where only non-Democrats are actually charged with much less convicted of a crime.
Street signs that officials said previously targeted LGBTQ community members were taken down from a Silver Lake neighborhood Monday.
The signs that read “No Cruising” and prohibited U-turns were installed in 1997 when neighbors complained about gay men hanging out and looking for dates in certain residential areas close to popular gay bars.
While the “No Cruising” signs were removed after the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council voted to dismantle them in 2011, some of the no U-turn signs remained.
Guilty by association with the “No Cruising” signs, the remaining and perfectly sensible “No U-turn” signs needed to be removed. Because shut up.
NBC Los Angeles continues:
After months of “bureaucratic process,” Raman said she collaborated with the office of Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who oversees other parts of Silver Lake, to remove the final signs.
“For me, growing up in South Central Los Angeles, cruising had a very different meaning. It usually meant folks in their lowriders or their cars, a lot of hip-hop music, just going up down Crenshaw Boulevard,” Soto-Martinez said. “But here in Silver Lake, cruising, of course, meant something very different. It meant an opportunity for the LGBT community to try to find human connection and intimacy and to be able to express themselves in a society at the time that was not very welcoming to the LGBT community.”
Soto-Martinez explained that eliminating the remnants of discrimination was the right step forward when there are escalated attacks against LGBTQ community.
“The last two no U-Turn signs remind us of that troubled past that we have here in this neighborhood,” he said.
Meanwhile, homelessness, drug and alcohol deaths, and both violent and non-violent crime are rampant in much of California. But hey, those homophobic No U-turn signs have finally been taken down. Priorities.
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Oh, the poor homosexualists. They were simply seeking dates, human contact and intimacy. No, they were on the prowl for quick, bestial buggery.
Just like every other whore-stroll in any large city across the nation…. But now it’s OK if the participants are LBGTQEIEIO….
“Gay prostitution is okay because shut up,” they explained.
I have to admit at this point that my sympathy for anyone in said neighborhood who gets in a car wreck because of this decision by the LA city council is now non-existent.
Subotai Bahadur
Yay. Gay cruisers are now free, to be collision victims.
Stunning and brave new world!
I bet at this point, your feelings about such an incident would be schadenfreude, not indifference.
“It meant an opportunity for the LGBT community to try to find human connection and intimacy…”
Picking some random person up off the street for sex is neither a human connection nor intimacy. It’s mutual masturbation.
Newsom said they might have to ban red lights next because they are offensive to prostitutes.
Newsom rips out Klamath River dams and then stumps for creating new “water storage” basins. The outrageous level of his inane agitprop knows no bounds.
A few months ago he was bragging about planting 20 beaver in wet places throughout NorCal. I’m guessing that the 20 coyote planted the year previous ate the 20 beaver planted this past fall.
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“California is teaming up with private sector innovators to make state government more efficient for nearly 40 million Californians.”
Newsom controls maybe 12 official CAL twitter accounts. It’s this times 1000. Every. Single. Day.
Is eating beaver a good or bad thing? I’m so confused anymore.
It’s not bad at all. Tastes like chicken.
Unless you get one of the ones that taste like fish.
What the fu*k is wrong with the gay people? Why are they in a political coalition with the trannies and gender-bender-groomers? Don’t they know that the large majority of little kids getting their penises chopped off are gay?
Most of us AREN’T.
And will those of you who climbed on the Newsom ho by horse explain what he has to do with what one district In one city is doing?
I’ve known a fair number of gay men and women. They were all as appalled by this nonsense as everyone else and, like everyone else, just wanted to be left alone to live their lives.
I’ve never met one of the groomers. I suspect that they are loud but very rare.
A friend of mine told me the reason some straight men are attracted to trans women is because they have a penis. I don’t know if I believe him. I do believe that the man-made (allowable phrase?) vaginas attract no one.
The idea that straight people are attracted to cross-dressers is a collective cope the cross-dressers tell themselves.
If it’s part of the sales pitch, then why are you tucking it?
Your friend is flat-out wrong. Any allegedly “straight” man who professes attraction to a “trans” “woman,” is a closeted homosexual. No legitimately heterosexual man is attracted to trannies.
Your friend had best speak for himself.
Maybe it lets him sleep an night….
The overwhelming majority are not. You may as well ask why millions of Americans have no idea Trump was on trial or how corrupt Biden is.
1) California is all-in on “road diets”, with the excuse being that pedestrians are dying at record rates. (Because addicts and psychotics wander around in the streets in the middle of the night, but you’re not supposed to say that part.)
2) California legalizes jaywalking, because apparently pedestrians dying at record rates only matters when the solution is to limit traffic and get people to stop driving their icky cars.
3) California removes road signs which prevent pedestrian deaths, because apparently pedestrians dying at record rates only matters when the solution is to limit traffic and get people to stop driving their icky cars.
What’s next, No Smoking signs declared Islamophobic?
(Alcohol is forbidden in Islam and since medieval times, many Muslims have taken up tobacco as an alternate habit.)
Sorry to be the devil’s advocate here, but the headlines makes it looks like “No U-Turns” have become the new OK sign, but the cited article says they are taking down these signs in this specific area, because pushing people away from gay bars is the only reason the signs were put up in the first place. Hence they don’t serve an actual traffic safety purpose, hence they should be removed. I LIKE the absence of “No U-Turn” signs, because I like to be able to correct course when safe to do so. And “No Cruising”, defined by the sign pictured in the article as “two past the same point within 6 hours” is just begging for police abuse.
Didn’t Buttigeig spend a buttload of our money to fix Highway Hatred? How did he miss these?
Oh waitaminnit, he only addressed the racist highways, not the homophobic ones.
Send more money, please!
I bet JR was there with his ratchet.
I LOVE that this same neighborhood is subject to the mansion tax.
Some outrages are more actionable than others.
Odd … I thought it was the “One-Way” and “Do Not Enter” signs that were anti-(male)-gay?
Maybe California should worry less about imaginary homophobia, and more about its REAL Jew-hatred:
https://joelkotkin.com/california-is-the-homeland-of-progressive-anti-semitism/
I heard that the traffic signs that have been removed from the Silver Lake neighborhood streets are being replaced with the following signs:
“Watch for Children”
“Drag Queen Crossing”
“Merge or-Else”
Be Woke-It’s the Law”
In January 2023, California removed “loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution” from the state’s penal code.
All cities in CA now have streets for “cruising”.
Tell “Maebe A. Girl” that rainbow crosswalks are heterophobic.
Up next: the expunging of the term “penal code.”
It might trigger trans something or others…