Ron DeSantis destroyed the Pulse memorial. A major newspaper is fighting his secrecy. The paper called the memorial’s removal “sacrilege on sacred ground.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/ron-desantis-destroyed-the-pulse-memorial-a-major-newspaper-is-fighting-his-secrecy/
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so sad
>Florida Gov. [Ron DeSantis](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/who-is-ron-desantis-where-does-he-stand-on-lgbtq-rights/) (R) ordered the FDOT [to paint over the crosswalk](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/ron-desantis-paints-over-pulse-memorial-rainbow-crosswalk-in-the-of-night/) in the middle of the night, but the FDOT didn’t notify any Orlando city officials – not even the mayor – beforehand. Four months ago, the *Sentinel* requested FDOT records related to the crosswalk’s destruction. The FDOT stonewalled the request, leading the publication to file its recent lawsuit, the *Sentinel* [explained](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/28/editorial-we-shouldnt-have-to-fight-for-crosswalk-records-but-we-will/) in a recent editorial.
>“Why the sneak attack?” the *Sentinel* asked about the crosswalk’s late-night removal, in its editorial. “Why didn’t Orlando get the chance to appeal, as other cities were granted? Most compelling: Why did the [F]DOT destroy a crosswalk that the department itself installed just a few months prior, complete with the rainbow colors — and even boasted about on social media?”
>“When the *Sentinel* and other media outlets asked the state for records that would answer those questions, the only response was silence,” the editorial continued.
Ron DeSantis through this move has shown that he is okay with committing genocide on LGBTQIA+ people, because dead people are more preferable than having a welcoming place.
Joke’s on DeSantis, the guy wasn’t even intentionally targeting the LGBT community!
The fact that ALL Christians didn’t protest the removal of a memorial to 49 human beings that were slaughtered, speaks volumes about their personal faith.
Culture war garbage from a lying piece of shit pretending to be a good Christian
Total scumbag.
It just clicked with me.
I can tell you first hand, FDOT would not mess with or alter memorials (bikes, crosses, Teddy bears) on roads and sidewalks even when road construction was performed.
This was very odd behavior.
The right, winning the culture war
Fascismo are bigots. Floridians are bigots. It’s a match made in hell.
What the literal fuck is wrong with these people
Yeah I guarantee he and the rest of the Christian nationalists scoffed when it happened. I can say with 100% confidence that many conversations where had in Christian homes where the victims were blamed and god punished them for their sins. I can say this with confidence because as a kid I was part of those same conversations growing up in my home, church, and school. They don’t really care about the people who died.
People really should be looking into why almost a decade later, there wasn’t a memorial built where the nightclub used to be. Why did they raise tens of millions of dollars to build a memorial, pay themselves 6 figure salaries and spend millions on “designing” something and then never building it?
Now people are fighting over asphalt and sidewalks when there **should have been an actual memorial made for something other than stepping on**.
What a despicable human being.
Some people just can’t stop themselves from being horrible.
Double down. Paint the sidewalks all around the area. Put up multiple signs. State DOT has no jurisdiction over these type of possibilities
Floridian here. You guys should be taking up Pulse Memorial issue with the onePulse organization who have been given millions of dollars to build one.
The only thing Republicans care about is what you’re doing
Who?
There are a whole lot of villains in this world and very, very few heroes.
If someone is fucking with your memorial, they’re glad you’re dead.
It’s why we’re all looking forward to pissing Trump’s grave when natural causes finally do their thing.
That’s a lot of heel for a guy.
Color sidewalk crossings with chalk at Pulse? NOT ON MY WATCH!
Performative hate.
Keep repainting it slightly bigger every time they erase it until the whole fucking city is rainbow
Peter Thiel is going to use his millions to fight this travesty.
No, wait, he’s not.
Sorry. Daddy and Mommy aren’t actually what you’ve been fighting against all this time.
Look in the fucking mirror for once.
So, so many NAZIS were gay.
Wake the fuck up.
Oh, I totally forgot about that guy. Fuck that guy.
They love to denounce the murderer to further their hateful agenda, and accordingly they refuse to honor the victims due to their hateful agenda.
Despicable
Republicans want more gay and trans people dead.
Gogo boots was over last year
American Christians: *reeeeeee* you can’t take down statues of slavist traitors to the country that is part of our heritage and our history!
Also American Christians: *bulldoze memorial to the innocent victims of a terror attack*