SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 Just one day after Governor Greg Abbott threatened to withhold funding over rainbow crosswalks members of the LGBTQ+ community united at the Love Thy Neighbor Community Forum.<\/p>\n
Although the forum\u2019s primary focus was gender-neutral identification and defying state repression many wanted to talk about potentially losing a symbol of love in the Pride Cultural Heritage District. Lyn-Z Andrews, the first transwoman radio personality on Tejano Radio feels the LGBTQ+ community is being unfairly targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis LGBTQIA historical district needs, and should, and will have that crosswalk at that corner because we fought long and hard for it,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cWe deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of protesting, organizers of the forum asked supporters to make their voices heard at city council meetings. Pride San Antonio\u2019s secretary, James Poindexter says the community paid a majority of the funds for the crosswalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need everyone to call their city council members to let them know how important it is to us,\u201d Poindexter said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones gave encouraging words to the LGBTQ+ community during Council Chambers<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need crosswalks for pride, right?\u201d Ortiz Jones said. \u201cThey\u2019re nice to have but the pride rolls on.\u201d<\/p>\n
District 10 councilman Marc Whyte understands the rainbow crosswalk means a lot to people, but he says right now the city cannot afford to lose funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to remove the rainbow crosswalk,\u201d Whyte said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t the city is subject to losing a lot of state funding that we need for our infrastructure needs in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
District 5 councilwoman Teri Castillo feels differently.<\/p>\n
The rainbow crosswalk is currently fully functional and safe. At a time when many of our neighborhoods still lack basic infrastructure like sidewalks, crosswalks, and other traffic calming measures, spending funds on removing a functioning crosswalk would be fiscally irresponsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 Just one day after Governor Greg Abbott threatened to withhold funding over rainbow crosswalks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,718,6283,53600,1258,3153,5603,3009,113212,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-290993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-council","11":"tag-forum","12":"tag-funding","13":"tag-governor","14":"tag-lgbtq","15":"tag-pride","16":"tag-rainbow-crosswalk","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-sanantonio","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115347892835448492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}