Arrests, protests and sidewalk chalk: How Florida’s rainbow crosswalks became a political lightning rod

The battle over LGBTQ inclusion in Florida has expanded outside of the state’s classrooms to its crosswalks. Last month, the Florida Department of Transportation began removing rainbow crosswalks, Black history road murals and other street art after it updated its guidelines earlier this year to prohibit “non-uniform traffic control devices, such as pavement markings on state and local roads.” A rainbow crosswalk created in Orlando as part of a memorial for the 49 people fata