Ron DeSantis won’t let Florida bridges display rainbow lights for Pride. Instead, Florida is celebrating something they’re calling “Freedom Summer.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/ron-desantis-wont-let-florida-bridges-display-rainbow-lights-for-pride/

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  1. Nothing says ‘freedom’ like being told what color lights you’re allowed to decorate bridges with.

  2. >Florida Gov. [Ron DeSantis](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/who-is-ron-desantis-where-does-he-stand-on-lgbtq-rights/)’s Republican administration will not allow the state’s bridges to display rainbow lights for Pride month this year.

    >As part of “Freedom Summer,” the state’s bridges will be illuminated in red, white, and blue lights from Memorial Day to Labor Day…

    >As multiple local Florida outlets have noted, the “Freedom Summer” initiative means that bridges that would otherwise be lit in colors celebrating Pride, National Gun Violence Awareness Month, Juneteenth, and other summer holidays won’t be this year.

    >St. Pete Pride president Byron Green-Calisch blasted the decision to cancel both Pride and National Gun Violence Awareness Day displays this year. “The queer community has been plagued with gun violence and so has the rest of Florida, from Pulse (nightclub shooting in Orlando) to Parkland (school shooting in South Florida). We need to remember those victims, so that hurts my heart to hear,” he said.

    Wow. They are so scared of anything LGBTQIA+ that they will ban rainbows. I’m guessing the story of Noah’s Ark will be banned for having a rainbow. I bet they will start banning the sky for having rainbows.

    Ron DeSantis shares more in common with the Pulse Nightclub shooter and the Taliban than with free principles. He’s a total fascist to the core, sadistic.

  7. We just need The Gays to appropriate Freedom Summer’s inevitable red, white, and blue color scheme and make it gay. If they can take over rainbows I’m sure they can do the same for Old Glory

  8. I think the gay community needs to drop the rainbow colors as its own symbol and replace/rebrand it with red, white, and blue and make those colors the new “gay logo”.

    Then you are going to see some very conservative people lose their fucking minds when red/white/blue suddenly becomes the new “gay pride color”.

  9. DeSantos celebrates his freedom to wear high-heels and act like an obsessed, demented asshole.

  10. The words freedom and patriot have been taken over by mouth breathing assholes.

  11. Wow so he’s the dictator of the state and won’t allow cities to celebrate how they want, sad.

  13. Honestly, rainbow lit bridges seem pretty awesome. It’d be like Mario Kart Rainbow Road!

  14. Bet if it was Go Go Boots Pride, he’d be all up on that ish.

  15. Only small people are this threatened by shit like colored lights. That’s really the root of all of this we see from the right. They’re small people.

  17. Oh good! I was worried he would do something to lower my home owner’s and car insurance prices

  18. If the government advocates “freedom _______” anything I just assume its a conservative sideshow to placate its plebes.

  19. Not very free. Freedom has to be fought for again, just like we did in 1776

  20. Imagine being such strong men that you get triggered by rainbows

  22. The only freedom the right cares about is *their* freedom. No one else’s. That’s what they’re talking about.

  23. I’ve said it before, but I’m really tired of them misusing words. Propaganda is bad enough already, but this doublethink nonsense drives me insane.

  24. As always…

    Freedumbs for Herrenvolk.

    Law-and-Order for Untermenschen.

    (sigh)

  26. Meanwhile my car insurance keeps going up and up despite no wrecks or tickets.

    Glad to see we’re fixing things in this shit hole state.

  27. I am not an advocate of bullying, but when I see Ron Desantis I can’t help but think he should have been stuffed into a few lockers early on to straighten him out.

  28. 200,000 LGBTQ people are at Pensacola Beach in Florida right now for Pensacola Pride (Memorial Day weekend in Pensacola). It’s the 30th anniversary of the event.

    Huge parties, packed beaches, and an all around good time.

    Queer people aren’t going anywhere

  31. What weak ass people are afraid of rainbows. I bet they drive big ass trucks and have many other things about them that are designed to show just how tough they are. But not rainbows. They’re scary.

  32. Stopped going to Florida for vacation years ago. Don’t want to spend my money there thus supporting stupidity

  33. So by Freedom Summer they mean freedom for cis, white, makes and fuck everyone else.

    Just more of those Christian conservative values at action.

  34. The animals looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man, again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

    – George Orwell, *Animal Farm*

  35. Celebrate freedom by banning things that don’t hurt other people?

    Just Florida things…

  37. Cities should just do it anyway. Civil disobedience. Fuck that guy.

  38. “Nothing says ‘Freedom’ like oppression.” – Trump’s Unified Reich

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