LGBTQ activists and supporters reacted with anger on Thursday, Aug. 21, when they discovered that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had ordered state transportation department officials to remove a rainbow-colored crosswalk in Orlando on a street next to the Pulse gay nightclub, where 49 mostly LGBTQ people were shot to death by a lone gunman in 2016.

According to reports by Newsweek and the Washington Post, local residents, after discovering the crosswalk had been paved over the previous night, used chalk to reinstall the rainbow crosswalk later that day.

Although rain washed away some of the rainbow chalk coloring, people continued to reinstate the chalk coloring, the Post reported in an Aug. 22 news story.

With the full support of Orlando city officials and the state’s transportation dep

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