State officials told San Antonio city officials earlier this week that their request for an exemption that would allow the city to keep its rainbow crosswalks despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-rainbow-crosswalk decree has been denied. Dallas city officials have also requested an exemption for the rainbow crosswalks on Cedar Springs Road, but that request is expected to be denied, as well.
But as soon as Abbott’s order came, the businesses on The Cedar Springs Strip (and even Oak Lawn United Methodist Church) started fighting back by splashing as many rainbows as possible on their buildings.
Today, the folks at Roy G’s, the restaurant located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Throckmorton Street and Cedar Springs Road, upped their rainbow game with a new, brightly-rainbow-colored facade wrapping around the street-facing sides of the building.
Roy G’s rainbow in progress
Unlike others on The Strip, the Roy G’s rainbows weren’t onto the building. Instead, the Roy G rainbows were created by painting individual strips of wood in the different colors of the Progress Pride flag — the rainbow flag that also includes the pink, blue and white of the trans Pride flag along with brown and black stripes to represent the true diversity of the LGBTQ+ community.
Oh, and if you didn’t know, the rainbow is already an integral part of Roy G’s, since the name of the restaurant is a shortened version of Roy G Biv mnemonic device — or memory aid — to help you remember all the colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
So if you are down on The Strip, stop in Roy G’s for a bite and taste the rainbow.
— Tammye Nash
