(27 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – 27 August 2025
1. Drone of rainbow mural near Fort Lauderdale Beach ++MUTE++
2. Drone mural ++MUTE++
3. Wide mural
4. Mural and beach
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wilton Manors, Florida – 27 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Boo, CEO of the Pride Center at Equality Park:
"My first reaction to hearing that the state was requiring the city of Fort Lauderdale to remove the progressive flag on Sebastian Street was very troubling because it is just one more attempt to wipe away our existence as if we don’t even belong here. So the LGBT community has been under constant attack, and this is just one more attempt to do away with us."
6. LGBT flag on street
7. Close flags
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – 27 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Osborne, Fort Lauderdale resident:
"I’ve lived here for 20 years. Fort Lauderdale, South Florida was a very welcoming, warm, loving community. Now, this is intimidation. That’s all this is. It’s intimidating people to be afraid. But what I think is going to end up being the… you take one step backwards, we’re going to take five steps forward because now, we are going to paint buildings. We’re gonna paint. You’re gonna see people that are going to do more because people love each other. This is a beautiful community. We are loving."
9. Wide mural on street
10. Mural
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wilton Manors, Florida – 27 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Boo, CEO of the Pride Center at Equality Park:
"One could just be standing there going, oh, it’s a street, who cares? You know? Repave it and do something else. But it’s the significance of this administration against our community. And it just continues to be bit by bit by bit of removing our existence, our visibility and trying to make us go away."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – 27 August 2025
12. Drone of mural and beach ++MUTE++
13. Drone mural ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Fort Lauderdale city leaders will host an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss how to respond to the state’s order to remove rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art throughout Florida or risk losing millions of dollars in funding.
The Department of Transportation under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered communities to remove the crosswalks and other street art by early next month. Most of the painted crossings celebrate marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ+ and Black communities.
Critics say it’s the latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community by the DeSantis administration and Republican-controlled Legislature, including restrictions on gender-affirming care and Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law, which banned classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain grades.
“It is just one more attempt to wipe away our existence as if we don’t even belong here,” said Robert Boo, the CEO of Pride Center Florida in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Wilton Manors.
Jason Osborne, a Fort Lauderdale local who visited the Sebastian Street mural to take pictures of it on Wednesday, said the state’s mandate is meant to intimidate people and make them afraid.
But he predicted that it will have the opposite effect, and that for every one step backward, "we’re going to take five steps forward. Because now we are going to paint buildings. You’re gonna see people that are going to do more because people love each other.”
AP video by Daniel Kozin
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