LA Drag Queen Maebe A. Girl explains why she tore out ‘homophobic’ U-turn signs from town

A resistance queen who serves arsenic an elected section charismatic told Fox News Digital why she and her colleagues removed “homophobic” postulation signs from her Los Angeles community.

Maebe A. Girl, a personnel of nan Silver Lake vicinity council, responded to nan contention that ensued aft she removed signs which said, “No cruising. No U-turns. Midnight to 6 a.m.” The signs were posted astir nan Silver Lake vicinity successful 1997, pinch nan intent of curbing cheery men from roaming nan streets to hook up, according to Maebe. 

“Now, pinch this, discourse matters,” nan councilmember said. “Cruising is simply a euphemism for cheery men searching for sex. And I’m not present to opportunity I’m present to make judge that cheery men tin cruise for sex. The constituent of nan original signs being installed successful Silver Lake was a consequence to what was perceived by LAPD and neighbors successful nan area of cheery men cruising for sex.”

Maebe besides responded to critics’ concerns astir whether removing nan signs could effect nationalist safety. 

“People are saying they’re fed up pinch nan queer organization because we’ve gone excessively far. We’ve asked for excessively much. Now we’re saying, ‘No U-turn signs are homophobic,’ which is perfectly not nan case,” said Maebe. “This was conscionable a section rumor that we were asked to address. We did, and it conscionable traveled very acold extracurricular of our community.” 

The move exploded connected platforms such arsenic X and TikTok. Right-wing accounts, successful particular, quickly took announcement of nan videos showing Maebe removing nan postulation signs and expressed their daze that it was existent life – not satire aliases immoderate joke. 

Maebe said she ne'er imagined it would person dispersed and go a “divisive infinitesimal of nan civilization wars.”

“So, a batch of critics astir these signs coming down are saying it’s conscionable a postulation information issue, [that] there’s going to beryllium a batch of accidents now that nan signs person been removed,” she said. “Here’s nan thing: If U-turns were really a problem connected this residential streets, past nan nary U-turn signs should beryllium successful effect 24/7. They should not person been successful effect only successful what is arguably nan slightest engaged clip for traffic, midnight to 6 a.m. So, cops were utilizing this arsenic a measurement to benignant of ace down connected nan queer organization successful nan neighborhood.”

Maebe wore a pin of nan Palestinian emblem during an question and reply and explained her engagement pinch “Queers for Palestine,” a activity critics person crudely mocked arsenic “Chickens for KFC.”

“I’ll opportunity I’m not nan spokesperson for nan ‘Free Palestine’ movement. But I will opportunity that I americium a proponent. I americium a supporter,” she said. 

To explicate her constituent of view, Maebe switched gears and said that nan LGBTQ activity successful nan U.S. is presently facing what she believed was discriminatory legislation. 

“To me, it’s conscionable pinkish washing and saying, ‘How tin you support [‘Free Palestine’] if you’re a queer person?’ erstwhile I’m not moreover supported arsenic a queer personification present successful nan United States?” she said. 

“I’m not free unless everybody is free. And to me, it conscionable seems that you person to be, you know, consenting to widen that liberation to everybody, moreover if they don’t work together pinch each portion of your peculiar identity,” she said.

“I support Israeli citizens, I support Palestinians. For me, it is this conflict of these governmental entities connected a world scale, and that’s what I return rumor with,” Maebe said.