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• 'GAY TRAFFIC LIGHTS' LEAVE PESTRIANS TRAFALGAR SQUARE BAFFLED
• GAYS GET RED (AND GREEN) LIGHT MUNICH
• LONDON PRI GAY TRAFFIC LIGHTS STILL REPLACED BY SAME-SEX SYMBOLS
• GAY AND HERE TO STAY: LGBT TRAFFIC LIGHTS WON’T BE REMOVED
• <3: ONE CY NOW HAS GAY, STRAIGHT AND LBIAN TRAFFIC LIGHTS
• EUROVISN SONG CONTT HOST VIENNA LNCH GAY-THEMED TRAFFIC LIGHTS
• LONDON PRI: GAY AND TRANS SYMBOLS REPLACE GREEN MAN ON TRAFFIC LIGHT PESTRIAN CROSSGS FOR FTIVAL
• MADRID GREEN-LIGHTS TRAFFIC SIGNALS WH WOMEN, GAY COUPL

'GAY TRAFFIC LIGHTS' LEAVE PESTRIANS TRAFALGAR SQUARE BAFFLED

Gay Pri traffic lights will operate London durg the Pri Ftival.

GAYS GET RED (AND GREEN) LIGHT MUNICH

Pri ftival anisers are expectg a huge volume of support this year, believg a lot of cizens would want to show their solidary over the Orlando massacre a gay nightclub club. (Left to right) Michael Salter-Church, Sadiq Khan and Alison Camps as the new pestrian signals are traffic signals have been signed to show TfL’s support for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans diversy London, and are spired by a siar set of traffic signals that were produced Vienna last will be seven special signs to reprent LGBT Khan, Mayor of London, said: “One of the greatt thgs about this cy is our differenc and every Londoner should be proud of who they are.

'Gay' traffic lights will stay: No plans to take down the same-sex symbols three months after they replaced the green man to celebrate London LGBT PriGreen man sign was replaced wh LGBT symbols to mark London PriSymbols changed at 50 pestrian crossgs around Trafalgar SquareLights are set to stay, spe some pestrians sayg they are nfg Published: 14:02 BST, 18 September 2016 | Updated: 16:37 BST, 18 September 2016. 'Gay' traffic lights are set to stay, even though some pestrians have said they are tradnal green man sign was replaced wh LGBT symbols at 50 pestrian crossgs around the Trafalgar Square area June, as a nod to those takg part London signs are still place three months later and clu two men and two women holdg hands, as well as a transgenr symbol. 'Gay' traffic lights are set to stay, even though some pestrians have said they are nfg The tradnal green man sign was replaced wh LGBT symbols at 50 pestrian crossgs around the Trafalgar Square area June, as a nod to those takg part London Pri However, bee some of the symbols happen to look like arrows, some pestrians say they are nfed which directn they should be walkg , acrdg to The said they were nfed about when men and women were able to cross the road.

LONDON PRI GAY TRAFFIC LIGHTS STILL REPLACED BY SAME-SEX SYMBOLS

Gay traffic lights leave pestrians Trafalgar Square nfed | UK | News | Daily Exprs. Gay-iendly traffic lights celebratg London Pri will rema the pal wh 'no plans' to take them down.

Around 50 sets of traffic lights near by Trafalgar Square had their “walk” and “green man” imag replaced wh the new signs June to ci wh an annual Gay Pri Ftival. Officials said the seven different same-sex symbols were signed to show Transport for London’s “support for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans diversy” the solary “green man”, who has been featured on UK traffic lights sce 1969, has now been joed by a male partner or replaced wh two green women holdg hands.

GAY AND HERE TO STAY: LGBT TRAFFIC LIGHTS WON’T BE REMOVED

"Fair enough, people are gay or transgenr, whatever, I have no problem wh that, but to change the traffic lights seems a b bonkers to me.

“I have gay and LGBT iends and they’re not my ‘gay’ iends, they are jt my iends.

<3: ONE CY NOW HAS GAY, STRAIGHT AND LBIAN TRAFFIC LIGHTS

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EUROVISN SONG CONTT HOST VIENNA LNCH GAY-THEMED TRAFFIC LIGHTS

Munich's versns of the gay upl troduced on Vienna traffic lights durg the Eurovisn song ntt have arrived, jt time for Christopher Street Day (Gay Pri) this weekend.

LONDON PRI: GAY AND TRANS SYMBOLS REPLACE GREEN MAN ON TRAFFIC LIGHT PESTRIAN CROSSGS FOR FTIVAL

The new lights at pestrian crossgs show gay, lbian and heterosexual pairgs wag patiently together at the signals or crossg hand--hand. “I like the gay Ampelmännchen (traffic light figur), ” Harald Klk of the Munich-based Dtsch Ingenirblatt (German Engeerg News) tweeted on Tuday.

Gay-uple traffic signals were first troduced Vienna as a way of welg the Eurovisn Song Contt, held the Atrian pal this year after sger Concha Wurst took first place 2014.

Pestrians are baffled by gay traffic lights as ltle green man is still replaced by same-sex symbols three months after London PriAround 50 traffic lights were replaced near Trafalgar Square Bee the genr symbols look like arrows, pestrians are nfedImage of two people holdg hands has also left some mystifiedScheme has otherwise been largely praised by the pal's muny Published: 11:47 BST, 3 September 2016 | Updated: 15:04 BST, 7 September 2016. 'A siar scheme was troduced last year Vienna to get the Atrian pal the mood to host the Eurovisn Song of traffic lights the centre of the Atrian ptial were programmed to show male or female gay upl wh hearts, replacg the ual sgle, genr-ntral figure. MAINZ, Germany — Dozens of traffic lights Vienna are beg equipped wh symbols reprentg lovg gay upl holdg hands.

MADRID GREEN-LIGHTS TRAFFIC SIGNALS WH WOMEN, GAY COUPL

”Eurovisn is enormoly popular among gay muni across Europe, not only bee of beard Atrian transgenr artist Concha Wurst's triumph at last year's of traffic lights central Vienna have been programmed to show male or female gay upl wh hearts — red for stop and green for go — replacg the ual sgle, genr-ntral BADER / Rters"The cy of Vienna is settg a signal for openns and tolerance, “ puty mayor Maria Vassilakou add a statement. One picts a gay uple, the other, a heterosexual one. “If you’re om [somewhere ls tolerant] and you hear about this or you see this and you’re gay or lbian or transgenr, I thk n be very powerful, ” Zwanenberg add.

Reactns to the lights have been mostly posive, acrdg to Zwanenberg and Dutch gay rights group COC Midn Nerland.

The most mon accatn is that the lights are guilty of the very thg they are purported to be fightg – discrimatn – by sglg out the gay muny and excludg heterosexuals. Sce the media equently bills the lights as “gay traffic lights, ” most crics are unaware that a heterosexual uple is clud.