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The brightly loured crossg was due to be stalled Totn Devon - the first Europe - as a mark of the town's pri for s gay muny.

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ROW OVER SYDNEY'S GAY STREET CROSSG

Traffic experts have slammed the rabow-loured pestrian crossg Floriana tend to mark the first year of gay unns Malta, sayg would distra * gay zebra crossing *

A rabow pestrian crossg pated Sydney to celebrate the cy's famo lbian and gay Mardi Gras is to be torn up as a dangero road hazard, acrdg to the ernment of New South Wal state. The crossg, on Oxford Street the cy's lbian and gay precct, was stalled Febary at a st of AUD$65, 000 (£45, 000) to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Mardi Gras.

"This trial crossg was a gture extend to Sydney's gay and lbian muny to honour the 35th anniversary of Mardi Gras, " said the New South Wal roads mister, Dunn Gay.

It said: "Lbians and gay men were beaten and bashed on Oxford Street 1978 and homophobic vlence was rife for years. Sydney's Mardi Gras is one of the biggt gay and lbian celebratns the world, attractg 400, 000 people each year. The roads mister, Dunn Gay, said he was happy to work wh the Cy of Sydney uncil on an "alternative permanent rabow attractn", jt not on the road.

RABOW ZEBRA CROSSGS TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS ULD AFFECT MENTIA SUFFERERS

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Traffic experts have slammed the rabow-loured pestrian crossg Floriana tend to mark the first year of gay unns Malta, sayg would distract drivers.

Photos of the St Anne Street zebra crossg the tradnal rabow pattern for gay pri went viral on social media, but some qutned whether the unnventnal lour scheme was legal.

Last month, the uncil of a Devon market town the UK gave the thumbs up to the first permanent gay pri zebra crossg Europe.

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Dozens of traffic lights the Atrian pal are changed to show gay upl crossg the road stead of the tradnal lone figure. * gay zebra crossing *

Other temporary rabow zebra crossgs have been pated at lotns around the world for gay pri events, and most of them did reta the black strips. Plans for rabow-loured zebra crossg to support gay rights uld be abandoned over fears would e hallucatns for mentia sufferers The brightly loured crossg was due to be stalled Totn DevonWas planned to be Europe's first rabow crossg support of gay rightsBut experts warn they uld have si-effects for Alzheimer's sufferers Published: 16:08 BST, 22 April 2015 | Updated: 19:52 BST, 22 April 2015.

VIENNA BRGS GAY PESTRIAN CROSSG LIGHTS

Plans for a 'rabow' zebra crossg to support gay rights uld be abandoned amid fears would e hallucatns for mentia brightly loured pestrian crossg was due to be stalled Totn Devon - the first Europe - as a mark of the town's pri for s gay muny.

Scroll down for vio Plans for a 'rabow' zebra crossg to support gay rights Totn, Devon, uld be abandoned amid fears would e hallucatns for mentia sufferers The brightly loured crossg was due to be stalled Totn Devon - the first Europe - as a mark of the town's pri for s gay munyFears were exprsed to uncillors who had been asked to back the plan to stall the crossg across an area lled The Plas. There have been temporary crossgs London and Brighton but the one planned Totn is hoped to be the first permanent one timated st of £15, 000 to set up would be found through an ternatnal fund raisg mpaign, grant fundg and mercial high-profile was temporarily stalled to mark Pri celebratns last crossg was removed but gay rights project Proud2Be has been fightg to create a permanent versn ever Price, who set up Proud2Be wh his tw brother, said that he hoped the crossg would send a strong and posive, 32, said: 'Totn is a brave and urageo town, which lik to do thgs want to celebrate diversy and enurage people to be proud of who they are.

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Sutton, south London: Trans flag is pated outsi Asda storeSutton pated 's trans crossg May to celebrate the ternatnal day agast homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. The crossg is Hurst Street, Birmgham’s Southsi, which is home to s gay quarter. The rabow crossg was given the go-ahead by Southsi district manager Julia Robertson, who said: “Southsi District is famo for our credible Gay Village and we’ve been planng our rabow crossg for some time.

The trans crossg is Marchmont Street, near Gay's The Word - a muny-centred book shop sellg queer fictn and non-fictn reads.Fom+, an pennt chary workg to improve the liv of LGBT people Camn, Islgton and the surroundg boroughs, said was "proud" to have participated the crossg. A petn has been lnched to stall rabow-loured zebra crossgs Manchter’s Gay Village to stop revellers beg h by rs. Adam said that sce Portland Street traffic has been diverted along Mshull Street, Chorlton Street and Sackville Street bee of roadworks, more and more motorists are mutg through the Gay Village.

He said: “The Gay Village is a huge attractn to lol rints and tourists and attracts thoands of people each week.

FILE:RABOW ZEBRA CROSSG FOR GAY PRI,

” Adam said the brightly-loured crossgs would also add to the Gay Village’s ‘attractive athetic’. Manchter’s Gay Village has always been a very distctive area, so I’d have no problem wh the lours. Image source, RtersImage ptn, It is hoped the eye-tchg change will improve road safety, a Vienna spokwoman saidDozens of traffic lights the Atrian pal have been changed to show gay upl crossg the road stead of the tradnal lone figure.

The unual symbols are attractg the attentn of drivers and pestrians, a spokwoman for Vienna's cy lightg partment of the lns who watch Eurovisn clu a huge gay fan base and last year's wner, beard transvte Concha Wurst, beme a global gay in wh the song Rise like a 40 untri are takg part the 2015 Eurovisn ntt. Grim, who is gay himself, also cricised the NHS’s cisn to waste taxpayers’ money on “hirg a fleet of “Diversy Managers”.

Conservative MP Sir John Hay ments to the Daily Mail brand the patg of the crossgs as “disgraceful” and suggted that “the ia a gay person would be more likely to go to hospal if they were need of re bee of the lour of a crossg – if wasn’t so disturbg, would be the stuff of a Monty Python sketch”. The LGBTQ* scene Munich has a long history: as well as beg one of the first ci to hold Christopher Street Day celebratns (the German and Swiss equivalent to Gay Pri), the Munich-based polil party Rosa Liste was the first gay and lbian electoral group Europe to take up seats on a lol uncil, the 90s. Although there are not as many specifilly gay bars and clubs here as there were the 1980s and '90s, there are several venu the area which always attract a good crowd.

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