London touts support for gay movement with gender-bending traffic lights
Some of the 50 LGBT crosswalk signals put up around busy Trafalgar Square to celebrate the Gay Pride Festival in June appear to violate an international treaty and are still up a month later. The 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals calls for simple images of pedestrians only, not the medical symbols for male and female and one established by the transgender movement. For the first time this year, London joined other cities such as Vienna, Seattle, and Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, in using traffic signage that deviate from biblical and biological sexual norms. While Canadian cities such as Victoria, Vancouver and Cornerbrook also have painted over the internationally recognized roadway striping for crosswalks with a rainbow of colors, London opted to modify 50 crosswalk signals in crowded Trafalgar Square. In London, the familiar green walking man was replaced with seven different images ranging from the circle...