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  • 2019-06-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Is the MTA Posting Pride Signs on the NYC Subway? โ€“ Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • Is the MTA Posting Pride Signs on the NYC Subway? Claim The MTA put LGBTQ pride signs in several NYC Subway stations. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting In June 2019, social media users shared images of what appeared to be official New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway signage marking Pride month : Happy Pride Month from the NYC MTA. pic.twitter.com/MBF6twBAXI โ€” emotionally unavailable ๐Ÿ’” (@BIGKIDAL) June 1, 2019 Spotted ๐Ÿ‘€ in NYC ๐Ÿ—ฝ Union Square Subway ๐Ÿš‡ โ€“ Happy Pride! #Pride โค๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š pic.twitter.com/5DLSdzucCU Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die โ€” Art & Acceptance at St. Luke's Church #BLM (@Art_Acceptance) June 2, 2019 A prominent iteration was shared by the Facebook page Occupy Democrats, but the post ( archived here ) did not indicate whether the MTA was actually responsible for the signs: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/photos/a.347907068635687/2793762307383472/?type=3&theater However, many sharers were unaware that the signage was not official : New York Cityโ€™s MTA did reference a limited edition Pride MetroCard available in June 2019 on Twitter: Hi, Doug. Our World Pride Month MetroCard distribution will start May 30th at Christopher street โ€“ Sheridan Sq station at the booth and MetroCard vending machines. The MetroCards will be distributed until inventory has run out. (1/2) ^KF โ€” NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) May 31, 2019 No mention was made of the posters, which all bore a sentence in small print at the bottom: Follow @PrideTrain on Instagram for more. That Instagram account was linked to an Etsy store retailing some of the signs seen in the images. In addition, a School of Visual Arts (SVA) tweet from 2018 announced the signs: The SVA Community's Pride Train Subway Campaign: Love Trumps Hate #pride #Pride2019 #pridemonth https://t.co/s3fUtwFpxe pic.twitter.com/7hD9ehmkvQ โ€” School Of Visual Arts (@SVA_News) June 2, 2019 A linked page made it clear that it was not an official NYC MTA campaign (which should have been somewhat evident from the tone of the signage, such as tip your drag queen and donโ€™t be a drag, be a queen.) In fact, 2019 marked the third anniversary of this campaign: Necessity may be the mother of invention, but a sense of urgency also breathes life into a creative response. Last June, President Trump, a leader who campaigned on the idea that he would govern as a friend and ally to the LGBTQ community in the run-up to the election, made an unthinkable about-face: unlike past presidents, President Trump didnโ€™t acknowledge June as Pride Month (and has yet to do so again in 2018). The failure to recognize Pride Month felt like a step in the wrong direction. Disturbed by this, and also noticing a growing number of alarming hate crimes in the wake of the administrationโ€™s policies, enterprising SVA faculty and alum Thomas Shim (BFA 2011 Graphic Design) and then-students/now-alumnus Ezequiel Consoli (BFA 2018 Design) and Jack Welles (BFA 2018 Design) sprang into action and came up with the Pride Train initiative: a clever guerilla campaign masquerading as MTA service announcement posters. The message: no intolerance is tolerated in our city. The MTA did mark Pride month with limited edition MetroCards, but not service-related posters. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged miscaptioned , NYC , pride , pride month , signs , subway (en)
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