LGBTQ traffic signals, featuring same-sex couples holding hands and gay and transgender symbols, put up in June in the Trafalgar Square area for London Pride are here to stay.
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“They were never meant to be permanent but we have no current plans to take them down and they are staying for the foreseeable future,” a Transport for London spokesman told The Sun. There are around 50 of the new traffic lights in total.
“One of the greatest things about this city is our differences and every Londoner should be proud of who they are,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan said when the lights were first introduced.
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Vienna started the trend in May of last year when they hosted the Eurovision song contest.
Munich followed suit two months later, installing their own LGBTQ themed lights for their Pride festival. They brought them back for this year’s festival as well.
Alistair Wiseman
Do identity politics have to play a role in every aspect of our lives? Apparently, even crossing the street is now subject to our differences rather than the basic human need to cross an intersection. Pathetic.
I thought we were part of the human family and wanted to be treated like everybody else.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
We don’t need this unnecessarily pandering superficial shit. This is what causes backlashes.
Stilinski26
This is only causing more outrage! can’t it just be live and let live. not everything has to be about gays, the dislike ratio in that video says it all.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I dunno if money public was spent on this…but almost certainly a nice wedge was paid to some parasitical LGBT “consultant” to hoover up his/her/zir nose
broadshoulder
Well done! Right on Trafalgar square! What makes a Londoner is diversity of opinion and not giving a stuff what everyone else thinks
London leads the way..
Hussain-TheCanadian
Both the uk and Germany host large immigrant populations, espacially Germany, so it maynot be a bad idea to be visible and show that being gay is celebrated and normal. It also helps the conversation going between the host society and those immigrants/refugees when it comes to gay rights, acceptance, and celebration.
Ukin Blome
Que the usual cast of characters here who post comments about how disgusted they are with themselves and that everyone else should be doing what they say. This is in London. It’s their city and it’s their money. If you don’t like it, stick your snotty nose somewhere else.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@Ukin Blome: But it’s fucking traffic light! What is it primarily communicating here? Only cross if you’re the indicated gender expression/sexual orientation? It’s silly, both in terms of semiotics and aesthetics. And It’s crude and tokenistic and more likely to rub people up the wrong way than bring communities together. Surely there are better, more intelligent ways to accomplish a tolerant cohesive society.
crowebobby
There will always be rapid homophobes no matter what, but the more young people grow up seeing gay life as just another aspect of everyday life, the sooner real acceptance will be achieved. Berlin is a wonderful example of this.
crowebobby
@crowebobby: @crowebobby: Meant “rabid” of course.
Ukin Blome
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: Yes Yes Yes! you are 100% right!
Ukin Blome
Ukin Blome
In my travels around the world I have found that the uniqueness of a place makes it a more attractive tourist destination. Places that make people feel welcome see far more visitors than places that despise quests. Adding walk signs with different figures in them makes London different from say, Dallas. People go to Europe to see the antiquity. People go to San Francisco to see the Victorian buildings, steep streets and the prison on the rock. Nobody wants to go somewhere that is exactly like the place they live. There is nothing interesting in the experience. You would go all that way, spend all that money and feel like you were still at home.
London has many attractions making it an exciting place to visit. The walk signs are just another one of them. Who are we to sit here in the U.S. and tell them not to do it? There are too many Popes and not enough Priests (that could be a good thing with all the child molesting stuff). Instead, how about there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. Let the Londoners do with London as they see fit. I think they have done a great job already. It is a beautiful place to visit,
Ukin Blome
@Ukin Blome: (That could be a good thing WITHOUT all the child molesting stuff)