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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 get together up, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Just in occasion 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.
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'No cruising' signs in Silver Lake used to victim LGBTQ+ community in '90s removed
SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The last remaining street signs that were used to aim the LGBTQ+ community in Silver Lake in the '90s were removed Monday.
City leaders along with local LGBTQ+ organizations and collective members gathered near Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue to take down the last several "No U-Turn" and "No Cruising" signs, which were installed in the '90s when neighbors complained about a gay bar in the area. They were essentially used to prevent people in the gay people from meeting up with other gay 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 understand that these were used to profile gay 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.
About 27 years after “No U-turn” signs were posted along Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake in an attempt to hold gay men from cruising the neighborhood to select up other gay men, members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community linked two Los Angeles municipality 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 Route, which straddles Los Angeles City Council Districts 4 and 13.
Getting rid of the signs was prolonged overdue for many, including Donovan Daughtry, a lgbtq+ man who five years ago moved to Silver Lake, known as existence LGBTQ-friendly.
Two years ago, Daughtry reached out to L.A. City 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 grab down the last indicate, Daughtry said, “This is a small effort, but just to have a sign that I would have to walk past with my dog every day be taken down meant a lot.”
Before the signs came down, town elected officials and
Street signs that officials said previously targeted LGBTQ people 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.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, whose district includes a portion of Silver Lake, said she learned about the remaining signs from a resident who listened to a podcast.
“The podcast mentioned that there had been “No Cruising” signs along Hyperion that had been removed in 2011, but that nine signs still remained on Griffith Park Boulevard,” Raman explained. “Our very retain Silver Lake constituent, Donovan Daughtry, heard the episode, and in May of 2022 he reached out to our Silver Lake Field Deputy at the time.”
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
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