banning street art<\/a> led to the removal of inclusive murals across the state, St. Petersburg has installed multicolored bike racks where an LGBTQ pride mural used to be.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe city\u2019s LGBTQ+ liaison calls the new bike racks a sign of support for the city\u2019s gay residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bike racks were installed along Central Avenue and 25th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the site of the city\u2019s progressive pride mural, one of five murals in the city removed by the state Department of Transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the removal, the city\u2019s LGBTQ+ Liaison Nathan Bruemmer says city leaders spoke with the city council and community about what they could do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea came forward, and they were ordered, and they were installed, and it was exciting,\u201d Breummer told WMNF.<\/p>\n
Breummer, the city\u2019s first openly transgender liaison, was involved in the painting of the mural and says watching its removal was tough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he says the community\u2019s response to the bike racks has been tremendous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese little small beacons of hope are things that I think are what make America great, and we should celebrate that,\u201d Bruemmer said.<\/p>\n
Breummer says the city is still developing other ideas on how to honor the city\u2019s LGBTQ+ community, and looks forward to its marquee Pride events next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s even greater acts of resistance that you\u2019re seeing from everyday citizens. You know, we\u2019re just doing the things we need to do here for this city, and hoping it may bring some smiles,\u201d Bruemmer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride inspired bike racks \/\/ Credit: Facebook, City of St. Petersburg, Florida Listen: After Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s order…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48491,412,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-89734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-gay-pride","tag-ron-desantis","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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