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Caution: gay people crossing

27 November 2018

4:49 PM

27 November 2018

4:49 PM

First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures represent men only and not all human beings (until that courageous move, have there really been any women who’ve actually thought about it and decided they were discriminated against by the signage patriarchy, or who wouldn’t cross the street because the lights did not represent them?).

Now come the same-sex couples:

Pedestrians in Canberra* are making slight double takes with the installation of same-sex pedestrian lights in the city centre.

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