Local advocates repainting the city’s Progressive Pride Street Mural ahead of St Pete Pride 2025 (Photo by Ryan Williams-Jent)
The Florida Department of Transportation issued a sweeping memo July 2 threatening to withhold funding from cities over any “pavement surface markings” that aren’t “uniform and consistent.”
One of the crosswalks at risk is part of the Pulse Remembrance Memorial, honoring the 49 lives with most of them being LGBTQ+ and Latinx. St. Petersburg’s Progressive Pride Street Mural may also be at risk…