From Staff Reports

Members of the North Texas LGBTQ+ community and their allies showed up in force on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18, to gather at the Legacy of Love Monument for a rally protesting Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive that Texas city — including Dallas — must remove or paint over any non-standard crosswalks or risk losing federal funds.

That puts Oak Lawn’s rainbow crosswalks down the length of Cedar Springs Road in danger of being removed. The crosswalks — when they were originally installed in 2020 and when the old ones were removed and replaced with more durable materials less than six months ago — were paid for through private donations and the efforts of the Cedar Springs Merchants Association.

The One City Many Colors, held around the monument at the intersection of Cedar Sp

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