For the third year in a row, Brunswick, Maine will have a freshly painted rainbow crosswalk on Maine Street for Pride month, reports the Sun Journal:
Brunswick will paint a Maine Street crosswalk in rainbow colors again this spring to celebrate Pride Month after motorcycle-riding vandals purposely left skid marks on the crosswalk last year.
The Town Council on Monday unanimously approved the plan for the third year in a row, saying it’s an important symbol that shows Brunswick supports the LGBTQ+ community.
“As a lesbian and having grown up in this town, I can’t tell you how proud I am of how accepting this town is,” said Councilor Kathy Wilson, who along with fellow Councilor Dan Ankeles first proposed the colored crosswalk in 2021. “Having something like that out there so we know we are accepted by the majority of the people is heartening.”
Last year, two motorcyclists vandalized the crosswalk on Maine Street by leaving tire marks. Resident Nathan MacDonald told councilors he was glad they decided to paint the crosswalk again this year.
“Symbolically, it’s important that we repaint it to show that this isn’t something that’s going to go away just because two people decided that they wanted to do that,” said MacDonald, who is the board president of Queerly ME, a nonprofit that supports the Maine LGBTQ+ community. “There’s a lot of us here. Being able to do something this simple to show that folks are welcome in this space is something that could be easily achieved.”
Read the complete Sun Journal article here.
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