Since 2017, the crosswalk near Pulse in Orlando has been painted with rainbow colors to recognize and honor the 49 people killed and 53 people wounded there in a 2016 mass shooting. Recently, that rainbow crosswalk was painted over, in gray, in the middle of the night by order of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This understandably upset some people who saw it as a politically motivated swipe at LGBTQ+ people because DeSantis has gone out of his way over the years to let LGBTQ+ people know that he does not like us and does not see our humanity. “What I’m taken aback by is that of all the rainbow crosswalks in Florida, Gov. DeSantis decided the crosswalk attached to the Pulse nightclub memorial was the example he wanted to make,” Florida Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, Florida’s first out Latine law

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