Rainbow colored crosswalks could soon return to Texas streets.
After Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s victory over longtime Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, some city leaders in the Lone Star State hope she will reverse his directive targeting decorative crosswalks. Last year, Abbott ordered the removal of rainbow colored crosswalks to erase “political ideologies” from public roadways.
Dallas City Councilman Chad West has already called on his city, which had to destroy both LGBTQ+ Pride and Black Lives Matter crosswalks under Abbott’s mandate, to reach out to Hinojosa about restoring them. The city removed a rainbow crosswalk in March at Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue in the heart of Dallas’ LGBTQ+ business district…