The celebrated rainbow crosswalks in Midtown have survived selfies, storms and Atlanta traffic. But they were no match for road crews, who disemboweled a portion of them and repaved the LGBT-themed splash of color in asphalt black.
That permanent splash of gay pride at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in Midtown came with a cost. The city spent $196,000 to install rainbow crosswalks over the July 4th holiday weekend.
Rainbow crosswalks will be installed in the heart of gay Atlanta this weekend, prompting the closure of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue while crews put paint to asphalt.
Mayor Kasim Reed announced on Monday – the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting -- that the city will install rainbow crosswalks at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street. Permanently.
An LGBT Atlanta activist wants rainbow crosswalks to return – permanently – to a Midtown intersection and has launched a petition urging city officials to do just that.
Gay Atlanta pushed City Hall and raised thousands to paint rainbow crosswalks in Midtown during Pride. But the high cost to install the project each October prompted organizers to shelve their idea.
A crew of painters armed with tape, rollers and buckets of the six colors in the Pride flag installed the Atlanta Rainbow Crosswalks on Thursday evening, painting a big dose of gay just in time for the city's massive Pride celebration.
The gayborhood will get a little gayer just in time for Pride. The Atlanta City Council on Monday approved the temporary installation of rainbow crosswalks at a busy Midtown intersection.
Organizers of the Atlanta Rainbow Crosswalks took a respite from city bureaucracy and fundraising to celebrate, cocktail and thank their sponsors and patrons as the project moves closer to its installation.
The City of Atlanta, just weeks after approving the permanent installation of rainbow crosswalks at a Midtown intersection, changed course and is now ordering the crosswalks scrubbed shortly after Pride.
Just two weeks after the City of Atlanta approved a gay man’s plan to paint LGBT rainbow-striped crosswalks at 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue, the private funds are well within reach, despite detractors.
We told you it was about to happen. The Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs made it so on Wednesday, and you can thank one gay Atlanta man for making an LGBT rainbow crosswalk a reality for Atlanta.
The intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue is already nicknamed by some as the Corner of Gay and Lesbian, Where Gay meets Gayer, or Gay Ground Zero. Now an art installation could make Midtown Atlanta’s LGBT epicenter official.
