{"id":2268599,"date":"2024-06-15T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-removes-homophobic-u-turn-signs-and-the-jokes-write-themselves\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T20:09:53","slug":"l-a-removes-homophobic-u-turn-signs-and-the-jokes-write-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-removes-homophobic-u-turn-signs-and-the-jokes-write-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Takes Down &#8216;Homophobic&#8217; U-Turn Signs, Prompting Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fl-a-removes-homophobic-u-turn-signs-and-the-jokes-write-themselves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2268599&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Los Angeles City \u2063Council members recently decided to remove &#8220;no U-turn&#8221; signs from a \u2064gay neighborhood after concerns were raised that they might be perceived as homophobic.\u200d Initially installed in 1997 alongside &#8220;no cruising&#8221; signs \u200bto address complaints about gay men cruising for dates near\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-call-bud-light-gets-worst-news-from-popular-gay-bars\/\" title=\"'Bud Light Receives Devastating News from Popular LGBTQ+ Bars'\">popular gay bars<\/a>, \u2064these signs have been the subject \u2064of ongoing debate. \u2064The decision to\u2063 remove the &#8220;no U-turn&#8221; signs followed a constituent reaching\u2064 out to Councilmember Nithya \u200dRaman, prompted \u200cby a podcast discussing the remaining signs post-removal of &#8220;no cruising&#8221; signs in 2011. Raman, alongside\u200b Councilmember \u2063Hugo Soto-Martinez, led the initiative to take down the signs, acknowledging the \u200dhistorical\u2062 implications they carried regarding \u200dthe discrimination faced by \u2064the LGBT\u2063 community in the area. This action sparked significant reaction and discussions online, highlighting the evolving understanding\u2063 of symbols and \u200ctheir\u2062 impact on communities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a> City Council members reportedly removed \u201cno U-turn\u201d signs from a gay neighborhood over concerns that they would be viewed as \u201chomophobic,\u201d and X \u2014 formerly Twitter \u2014 exploded with reactions to the move.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/silver-lake-remove-no-u-turn-signs\/3433130\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News affiliate<\/a>, the signs that were removed had been put up in 1997 after locals complained about gay men \u201ccruising\u201d in the residential areas near popular gay bars while looking for dates. Several \u201cno cruising\u201d signs were also put up around the same time, and were taken down after a Silver Lake Neighborhood Council vote in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A constituent brought the remaining \u201cno U-turn\u201d signs to Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, which she said got the bureaucratic ball rolling.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cpodcast mentioned that there had been \u2018No Cruising\u2019 signs along Hyperion that had been removed in 2011, but that nine signs still remained on Griffith Park Boulevard. Our very own Silver Lake constituent, Donovan Daughtry, heard the episode, and in May of 2022 he reached out to our Silver Lake Field Deputy at the time,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: LA City Council members have removed \u201cNo U-Turn\u201d traffic signs in a gay neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>They say the signs were homophobic.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is not satire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yadflyo588\">pic.twitter.com\/yadflyo588<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1801632184929030367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez worked with Raman to have the signs removed, saying that he had not previously understood the impact of those signs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, growing up in South Central Los Angeles, cruising had a very different meaning. It usually meant folks in their lowriders or their cars, a lot of hip-hop music, just going up down Crenshaw Boulevard. But here in Silver Lake, cruising, of course, meant something very different. It meant an opportunity for the LGBT community to try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-activists-cheer-as-supposedly-homophobic-street-signs-are-removed-in-la\/\" title=\"LGBT activists celebrate the removal of allegedly homophobic street signs in LA\">find human connection<\/a> and intimacy and to be able to express themselves in a society at the time that was not very welcoming to the LGBT community. The last two no U-Turn signs remind us of that troubled past that we have here in this neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And as a number of people pointed out later, very few Americans were aware that such signs had any connection at all to the LGBTQ community \u2014 much less a discriminatory connection.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best part of this is that literally *no one* would know \u2018no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-are-better-than-that-gop-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-blames-trump-for-dc-rioting-earlier-in-week-then-calls-rep-marjorie-greene-to-disagree-with-h\/\" title=\"\u201cRepublicans Are Better than That\u201d \u2013 GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Blames Trump for DC Rioting Earlier in Week \u2014 Then Calls Rep. Marjorie Greene to Disagree with Her on Biden Impeachment\">u-turn<\/a>\u2019 signs have ever meant anything other than no u-turn. I\u2019ve never seen a group that so desperately WANTS to be \u2018oppressed\u2019 or \u2018marginalized,&#8217;\u201d Riley Gaines posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The best part of this is that literally *no one* would know \u2018no u-turn\u2019 signs have ever meant anything other than no u-turn.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never seen a group that so desperately WANTS to be \u201coppressed\u201d or \u201cmarginalized\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ElknwNy9MT\">https:\/\/t.co\/ElknwNy9MT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1801926096138428621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGot rid of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben &#038; replaced Dr Seuss with Billy Blows Bobby &#038; it\u2019s still not enough. Congratulations on defeated the U-turn signs. Nothing will satisfy the left\u2019s insatiable appetite for destruction,\u201d another posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Got rid of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben &#038; replaced Dr Seuss with Billy Blows Bobby &#038; it\u2019s still not enough. Congratulations on defeated the U-turn signs. Nothing will satisfy the left\u2019s insatiable appetite for destruction. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UenEPkgVjW\">pic.twitter.com\/UenEPkgVjW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Scarlett Mayhem\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ScarlettO66) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScarlettO66\/status\/1801798910580576701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles City Council members reportedly took down &#8220;no U-turn&#8221; signs from a gay neighborhood amid fears of being seen as &#8220;homophobic.&#8221; The decision sparked a flurry of reactions on X, formerly known as Twitter. A Los Angeles NBC News affiliate reported that these signs were originally installed in 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2268600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1318524629.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1318524629.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}