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Instead, my advice is, he could have walked up the stairs. https://t.co/qyggdHowA6
— Riverboat McGee (@RadishHarmers) March 1, 2024
It’s not the first bigot the campus has encountered. Click to enlarge.
One bigot’s baffling attempt to avoid using the ‘gay stairs’ remains an all-time classic of the genre
There’s something about a Pride rainbow that short-circuits the brains of a certain demographic – and you probably know who we mean.
For more info, check out this Los Angeles Magazine article from 2016.
You can also access the stairs from the top – 2331 Cove Ave.
While in the area, consider checking out these other Best Guide LA Silver Lake and Los Feliz sights.
These photos were taken March 2022.
Recently, they gave the paint a refresh in time for this year’s gay Christmas.
But that apparently worried one young man.
As a case in point, this Australian chap gave himself a thorough workout and became an international laughing stock last year, when faced with the Progress Pride flag on some steps at the University of New South Wales.
Watch and wonder.
The lengths some people will go just to avoid supporting LGBTQIA2S+ is unbelievable.
He could have done this.
A lot of replies saying he could've walked up the brick incline on the right. For example, it was the thumbnail of a compilation posted on June 12th, 2022, by the YouTube channel sssleepymemes. pic.twitter.com/G4oJJTltL5
— Gary Peterson (@GaryPetersonUSA) March 2, 2024
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fellas, is it gay to use the stairs?
— sora (@BlackheartSora) March 1, 2024
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Rainbow stairs cause grown man to grind entire railing with crotch in totally normal game of “the floor is hot gay lava.” pic.twitter.com/oRte6L0vYL
— FriendlyKozak (@KvotheTheArcane) March 1, 2024
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This dude when using a photo editing program and opening up the color wheel.
When the stairs were first painted six years ago, the artwork did not extend to the large ornamental steps on the left. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Mattachine Steps
Address: 2348 Cove Ave, Silver Lake, CA
A steep set of workout stairs in Silver Lake, featuring 163 steps to the top, views of the reservoir down below and Hollywood Sign in the distance.
The Mattachine Steps serve as a monument to one of the most influential figures in LA’s history of LGBT advocacy – Harry Hay, who lived in the house adjacent to the stairs when he founded the Mattachine society in 1950; one of the first gay rights organizations established in the United States.
The video gained over 9.6 million views in one year (shown below).
On November 7th, 2022, Twitter user @LubbaSMG2 commented on the ubiquity of the image by asking, "Why does every single 'offensive memez!!!' compilation on YouTube have this as its thumbnail," gaining over 1,300 retweets and 28,000 likes in nearly one year (shown below).
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So rather than risk turning all gay after climbing the rainbow stairs, the energetic lad bumped and humped his way up the handrail.
Not the first
However, it turns out this young gent is not the first to avoid this particular rainbow.
The caption implies he is avoiding the rainbow-painted staircase because it's a "gay" staircase, referencing the LGBTQ+ community pride flag. But that's a bit steep and perhaps unsafe. There, it gained over 11,000 points in three and a half years (shown below).
Over the following years, the image was widely reposted to other social media hubs, including Facebook's "Dense Memes For Tense Kids" group, Reddit's /r/AreTheStraightsOK and Tumblr, where on December 1st, 2020, user tvguts posted an anti-meme edit, gaining over 2,300 notes in nearly three years (shown below).
The image and video's virality made it a staple of "offensive memes," and it particularly saw use as a thumbnail for YouTube "offensive meme" compilations.
Here’s a collective thumbs-down from Twitter/X.
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and his approach turned out a thousand times gayer than it would’ve been to just walk up the stairs so where do we go from here https://t.co/4VF19q0nBG
— matt (@mattxiv) March 2, 2024
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*man dry humps and grinds all the way up railings while asking his pal to film him x https://t.co/bCwqQ86ioo
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) March 2, 2024
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This is an amazing metaphor for how ridiculous right-wing jackoffs keep needlessly tying themselves in knots for our amusement JUST to avoid harmless things that scare them for no goddamn reason.
The image later became infamous online as a thumbnail in YouTube "Offensive Memes" compilations.
Origin
On September 30th, 2019, YouTuber HtThe posted a video in which a man deliberately avoids walking up a rainbow-colored staircase and climbs the large, cumbersome concrete stairs next to it. https://t.co/qChm4idJaV
— jAy ️️⚧️ (@jayrotoole) March 1, 2024
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End Wokeness has sadly gone woke by supporting keeping the pride steps clean.
pic.twitter.com/PWtfHcdo1v
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 1, 2024
He’ll have felt that in every muscle after a day or two – and it serves him right. https://t.co/kxrPDPG1ujpic.twitter.com/PmV6BbzLTU
— The Nerd Awesome Con (@TheNerdWASuit) March 1, 2024
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this is camp https://t.co/46wyUgx0JH
— Another Titanic Violinist (@stavvers) March 2, 2024
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This is so funny yet pathetic at the same time.