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The Los Angeles City Council removed several “no U-turn” signs from a historically gay neighborhood after concerns they could be seen as discriminatory.
In the 1990s, signs banning “cruising” for dates had been installed in response to complaints, but were later taken down.
A constituent brought the remaining “no U-turn” signs to the attention of a councilmember, saying they had a similar effect of discouraging the LGBTQ community.
BREAKING: LA City Council members have removed "No U-Turn" traffic signs in a gay neighborhood.
They say the signs were homophobic.
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While one councilmember understood the history, many social media users criticized the move as purporting oppression where none existed, noting most people were unaware “no U-turn” signs ever related to LGBTQ issues.
“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. 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. The last two no U-Turn signs remind us of that troubled past that we have here in this neighborhood,” Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez stated.
“The best part of this is that literally *no one* would know ‘no u-turn’ signs have ever meant anything other than no u-turn. I’ve never seen a group that so desperately WANTS to be ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized,’” conservative activist Riley Gaines posted.
