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Less than three weeks after being repainted, the rainbow crosswalks in Houston's Montrose neighborhood were removed Monday morning as construction crews tore up the asphalt at the intersection of Westheimer Road and Taft Street, chipping away strips of colorful concrete.

Montrose residents came to the intersection to watch the removal of a symbol celebrating the community’s LGBTQ+ residents. Some of them had come just to see the removal. Others were on their work commutes.

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"It feels petty, you know?" Montrose Chris Ordonez resident said. "This is the fight we're having right now, really? Really? With a lot of the climate issues and a lot of the loss of freedom of speech being abandoned, we're talking about street w

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