This scene is in the Castro District of San Francisco, a neighborhood with strong LGBT ties. When I toured the area in February, 2012, the newspaper headlines were about the California courts ruling that Proposition 8's ban on same sex marriage was unconstitutional. My painting plays on the mixed signals of the legislatures and courts in LGBT civil rights: stop/go, no left turn, yield..... If you look closely, you will see the newspaper headlines under the painting.
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