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No More Homophobic U-Turns, Baby!

#antigay#turnsigns#silverlake#cruising#pridemonth
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0:00 [Music] all right so we were just talking about this happened a day ago Silver Lake removes last traffic signs of its anti-gay past including win no uturn dude I just looked at that right now and I was laughing about it in my heart in your heart it's like a I didn't know that yeah I didn't know was a was a anti-gay thing calling someone read it which he's going to explain to you right now before I ████ ruin the whole thing for I want to hear your explanation job now dude honestly on this one I think Joe's explanation is the one the Silver Lake the Silver Lake thing what is it 12 I was literally like looking at this post as he was saying it and reading like the caption and you

0:51 read news while we get news here yeah I do I like the news that's how he stays on top double news so it's not double news the way that tag goes it's it makes you think that the no u-turn is homophobic yeah that's what I thought right but then it's a specific they're they're arguing that this road the reason why there's a no u-turn and no cruising is because back in the day the gay community would download like cuz you know it was like pretty they get ████ up for being gay back then so like to be secret that was their Meetup thing where they would cruise and pick and and date and then like flirt and then um you know they would party together or whatever so this road this specific Road they would allow guys to like Cruise back and forth and do u-turns M so they're only taking

1:43 down the U-turn signs of that street not any other Street Silver Lake yeah it's Silver Lake but nobody ████ knows about the ████ yeah nobody knows people just I didn't know no one knows but now they do so you could do u-turns in Silver Lake yeah like in the residential area I'm going to do it where it will say like there's said from Midnight to 6 uh no u-turns in this area cuz I don't like U-turn signs no u-turn signs cuz I feel like I don't either I go I you're gay wait no no let me finish dude oh I'm not gay I'm a married man straight don't be homophobic about it for now midnight to 6 but I I definitely want to May u-turns and I I see it and I'm like dude get rid of this but if it's for the the gay agenda I think you should keep them up but then but then there were there were a bunch of Mexicans that were saying that uh that it's actually because of low Ry

2:33 like well that that's weer Boulevard no they're saying it was because of this too that part too yeah the in the comments they were like it wasn't specifically gay it was everybody was doing it it was a thing to do back in the day you it like don't u-turn at night cuz it's more dangerous cuz you might like get hit no because cruising was a whole culture and I'm pretty sure Mexicans been cruising before gays been cruising yeah that's true they got fullon magazines of ████ Mexican Cruisers they don't got there was no gay people before Mexican you there's no me there's no gay cruising magazines whether they made that law or not because of gayness or mexicanness yeah it seems like a thing that if you live in that neighborhood you like that people can't you know like in Melrose you can't even go through the neighborhood at night because they don't want through traffic oh you can't what how do they block it off you have to live it's local traffic only they taking

3:24 down the sides like it's Saddam statue everybody Mak it's a press event it's so absurd shut up they making fun of it because it because it's like they look memory that that kept us ████ cuz it has I guess like like anti-gay Roots but now they got 20 more car crashes and you got babies ding on the ████ passenger seat kill the first couple babies then have that argue I think that's the real question is like should something that has anti-gay roots that probably evolved past that and it's just a ████ normal sign should that still be taken down anti-gay Roots dude first of all the world was anti-gay world right everybody that's true I'm practical dude if the street is small have a no u-turn sign up yeah it seems like if you just live there like whatever yeah but it wasn't driven by a

4:15 safety issue it was driven by a we don't want you gays here issue or Mexicans or what which is like ironic cuz like that area is so like gay friendly now people are really bad at doing u-turns though as a pro gay guy I'm like take the sign down but as a civilian in a community of safety i' be like put a different sign up that says please be careful when you're making urns for gayus please be sensitive is it helpful though like is it helpful to uncover let's say that you're the only person that like I don't know you opened up a freaking dusty ass book in the library and said that oh this one thing was due to anti- gainus is it helpful to tell the world hey you know that thing is actually anti-gay but like nobody remembered it like died so are you making it more anti-gay but now people know who I am oh yeah okay so it's clout that's the

5:07 other arent people are like oh look at this like baby clout chase that they this is how I know we're almost out of stuff we're almost out yeah fighting over U-turn what's your cause going to be it's like we got to get them ████ U-turn signs down dude cuz we're anti-gay that's also even a bad sign it's not even clear like if you don't like gays show a back seat to dudes and then eh no two dudes in the back seat that's way more clear like what are those two dudes in the back seat doing and there's no one in the driver's seat I don't think anybody should be doing u-turns in La anyway like if there's too many damn traffic no u-turns at all anywh I hate U-turn I hate but the dumb thing is that's from Midnight to 6 that's like a time that you could easily do a U-turn and not disturb anybody wait so the purpose of having no u-turn signs so they don't it was so that people don't Cruise in and like if they don't

5:58 see someone they're picking up this way right and your fine ass is walking down this way and I'm like and I P up to you dude's walking from Midnight to 6 hey honey you know what I mean but who knew that already what if they had a no gay bashing sign or what about that cuz that's what would happen right they would get gay bashed like hip hop more gay bashing will probably happen you know where all the prostitutes are on figur or is there a ████ no u-turn signs cuz that's where people are actually picking people up that's true it's passenger loading only they should do that yellow yellow only see that's that's where if they made a development in that area that would be a victory like not this yeah there's a lot of signs from um back in the day that's still up on W wer Boulevard from all the cruising oh I would be like why does it say no cruising I'm like did people cruise control here and then like you

6:48 figure it out later it's because they weren't ████ for people to do back in the day so they had like 50 cars and then they would go down the street they still do that on the on the weekends it was weird because cruising back in the day almost is so different to now it's like those guys got a lot of money like back in the day they were like Ruffians they were like out for trouble like these dudes their low riders cost way more than your ████ oh yeah these guys they're like 100 Grand cars going up yeah it's a lot of money back in the day it was like probably 10 times the population doing cruising than like the small car clubs doing and back in the day they just didn't like people not from their neighborhood to be driving around it like weird like vanise Boulevard was a big thing for cruising back in the day and then they cracked down on it like my father-in-law he my father Nicki's Dad hates it when people park in front of his house dude me too but why you guys are so we

7:39 Asian street my mom's the same way you guys are so strange what are they doing over there yeah you're just like it like dude Nikki's dad like blinds he's got the blinds down he's just seething it's like a hobby for him right his car in the middle and just block up he does that when they leave yeah Mom does that ████ he's but he get a cone out of the trunk puts it right behind she's like she's like make sure you park in front of the house I'm like why there's parking right here you know what it is I think it's when your driveway is small you feel like that yeah but then later on when you have actual spaces to park your own cars you're like I don't care no he takes it personal yeah some people just have a weird issue with that also when it comes to this not just for like the gay community but also even like the cruise Community like if it doesn't harm genuinely harm or hurt other people who gives a ████ like let people do what they want even let them celebrate their

8:30 on it too you know what I mean because it's like genuinely if nobody else is urning from 12: to 6: a.m. anyway or like let them ████ think that's the problems we're dealing with if you could do something that helped takeovers from happening that's the thing that's what I'm saying as long as it doesn't hurt or harm something else as well you know what I'm saying takeovers are clearly like they're ████ running over their own people and then other people can't other people can't even drive I saw a guy on fire of the last yeah dude like the way the way I'm seeing this is imagine you know like if all the the freeway exit that's coming out this way on the other side of the exit it says inner wrong way right cuz they don't want people to go head on traffic what if in or wrong way was a phrase like dude ████ gay ass entering the wrong way take down all the inner wrong way ████ signs and now people are going on the freeway the opposite direction crashing and ████ I'm more about the safety at least that's what I'm saying

9:20 if it's not harming anything you know me it is bro imagine imagine imagine you are so ████ soft that you're driving around and you see a U-turn sound and you're like oh oh it hurts so much cuz this is this is like the city that's your grandpa looking outside his blind oh my father-in-law exactly and I think he's sof for it exactly and I don't know anyone that sees a no u-turn sign at 1 a.m. and there's no cars there and they're going ████ I can't U-turn like they ████ take but the homophobe cop the homophobe cops waiting on his bik in the corner that's the problem there it is I know I do understand because I think the one of the people involved in this commented on the post and said like oh it's every small victory counts and I was okay I get that yeah like that's what I'm saying if it doesn't actually harm something here's your Victory

10:10 brother give them the small victory everybody wants the small victory you know what I mean good God just it's like when you I think it's because if you don't understand California how much ████ is going on everywhere and how much like cuz that's the the list of priorities yeah yeah yeah it's that taking down U-turn signs and throwing a ████ party about it is amazing and it's like that's the city right that's like City City officials you know like all the copper that got ████ stolen from the 6th Street Bridge so that none of the street lights work no lights like maybe put copper in that's kind of cool to be able to see you when you're driving at night I think did you see that that the copper will only get the thieves a few hundred bucks but it will cost the city Millions to replace ████ like ████ like that let's focus on ████ labor it's the labor of rebuilding the entire structure they took out hire the meth heads to put it back in they got the deal buback program yeah

11:02 I think that's that's the interesting position we're in is that like they could do something like this and they're like oh the sign was anti-gay we got to get rid of it back in the ████ day but then like you have figuroa Street like you said but getting rid of that would be anti-sex work which is another protest I forgot it's pride month yo that's why they're doing oh it's pride month How Could You Forget yeah we didn't forget don't say that you just Ro play I'm playing too cool for school man did they put pride month the same month as Asian month Asian month is me that was last month that one's Asian pride month it's different don't get confused

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