Florida removes the rainbow of the corridor outside the night pulse club

The rainbow corridor was drawn near the Night Pulse Corps in Orlando, Florida, to honor one of the most severe mass shootings in the country late on Wednesday after nearly a decade, which is part of a government effort and at the country level to clean “political signs” from public roads.

The memorial corridor, which was first painted in 2017, honored 49 people who were killed in 2016 when a gunman opened fire in Pulse, a friendly LGBTQ friend. Orlando bought the site in 2023, plans to destroy the building, which has been closed since 2016, and built a permanent memorial in its place.

Senator Carlos Gillirmo Smith (D) described Florida, which in 2016 became the first Latin Get Latin sex elected to the Legislative Authority, “removing disgusting betrayal” in a post on the social platform x.

“Of course they did so in the middle of the night. Because they know what they are wrong,” Smith said on Thursday in a two -minute video in front of the crossing corridor.

“We will not allow our roads to the state for political purposes,” said Florida Governor Ron Desantis (PBUH).

In June, Desantis deleted the signals to LGBTQ and people of Spanish origin – societies that were not affected by the shooting of the pulse – annually to honor the victims of the tragedy. Desantis has realized both groups on almost similar orders that were released during the last five years in office.

In 2019, his first year as a ruler, Desantis, issued a modified advertisement after a preliminary statement that honors the day of the anniversary of the pulse, which also refused to mention gay people. Desantis said at the time that he did not participate in formulating the first advertisement and asked his office a new version as soon as he realized to neglect.

The state’s decision to remove the rainbow corridor in Pulse comes at a time when President Trump’s administration is multiplied by the efforts made by diversity, shares, integration and transnational rights. In July, Transport Minister Sean Duffy ordered the conservatives to produce a list of “arterial parts”, including intersections, in each state.

Duffy said on social media: “Tax motives expect that their dollars will finance safe streets, not a rainbow.”

In recent months, Florida officials have directed cities across the state to remove crosses and crosses drawn with a rainbow or risk loss of transportation. In June, Will WhatsApp, Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Transport in Florida, wrote in a memorandum that “the art of the surface”, which does not directly contribute to traffic safety “can lead to deviations or misunderstanding, and endangering the safety of the driver and mutamus.”

WhatsApp wrote in the memo: “Any monitoring devices are not compatible with traffic monitoring or scales currently installed on the public roads in Florida, immediately treat them, that is, to remove, modify or replace them.” He mentioned specifically the art of the surface “associated with social, political or ideological messages.”

In a statement published on Thursday on social media, the mayor of Orlando Body Dyer, a democratic, said that the city was “destroyed” because of the removal of the corridor.

Dyer said: “This harsh measure of removing part of a memorial of what was at that time the biggest mass shooting in our nation, without any statements or a supportive safety, is a harsh political work.” “All safety corridors were installed in the city of Orlando in close coordination with the state and adhering to national safety standards. In fact, the cross -corridor, which is part of the memorial of the pulse by the state, was installed.”

Michael Williams, Director of Communications at the Florida Transport Department, told The Hill in an e -mail late Thursday that the department recently completed “a review of all the methods that were maintained in the state and are now correcting the signs of the pavement other than compliance.”

He said: “This includes the art of the street that was pre -installed on the right of the state, such as the intersection of Orange Avenue Street in question.”

He added: “The transportation infrastructure is for the movement of people and goods. In this case, while the cross -corridor was restored to its correct form, local efforts are underway to build a permanent memorial on the real estate adjacent to the funding of Florida.” “Any attempt to suggest otherwise is wrong.”

Brandon Wolf, one of the survivors of the shooting, also condemned the removal of the corridor.

“In the darkness of the night, they came to erase our presentation of solidarity, and our statement that we will never forget,” Wolf wrote on Thursday on X.

Wolf, spokesperson for the human rights campaign, the largest LGBTQ group of LGBTQ, lost two close friends, Drew Lenonin and Juan Guide, at PULSE shooting.

The LEGBTQ Rights Group in the state said it plans to gather safely in the memorial of the tone Thursday evening, or calls Floridian throughout the state “to make its clarity undeniable” with rainbow posters, clothes and flags and using the #Showyourrenbow hashtag on social media.

In a press release, the organization invited cities across Florida to install “permanent exhibitions to see LGBTQ”.

“For decades, politicians in Florida tried to criminalize the presence of LGBTQ, dismantling families, creating an atmosphere where violence is normalized. Archeology, murals, rainbow housing are not just symbols; they are strong celebrations of LGBTQ,” said the group. “They are our commitment to remember, and we promised that these damages will not be caused again.”

It was updated at 9:05 pm EST.