Posted on 09/03/2014 1:06:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Too bad there's no such thing as White Out for sidewalks.
Turns out, after the organizers of the Rainbow Honor Walk unveiled 20 "heroines and heroes" of the LGBT communities in San Francisco's Castro District on Tuesday, several eagle-eyed copy editor types spotted two glaring typos cemented in the sidewalk.
Playwright Oscar Wilde’s plate, for example, says the writer was “known for his bitting wit.”
And Christine Jorgensen, the first widely known person to have sex reassignment surgery, is called the “first trangendered American” rather than “transgendered.”
The CastroBubble blog was the first online site to point out the mistakes, and then several people began tweeting and posting snarky comments on Facebook.
Rainbow Honor Walk Treasurer Kathy Amendola told NBC Bay Area on Wednesday that the problem will be corrected.
"This is obviously an important issue," she said. "And you know how politically correct we must be. We're very conscious of it."
The nonprofit organization that raised $100,000 for the plaques said the foundry in Berkeley is working hard to fix the error, and will replace the two plaques by early October. Amendola said each plaque cost $6,000.
Rainbow Honor Walk Board President David Perry said he honestly doesn't know how the mistake was made, but no one is angry or pointing fingers.
In fact, he said his group is now making "lemonade out of lemons." There are plans to auction off the misspelled Wilde plaque and give that money back to the Rainbow Honor Walk group, and auction off the Jorgensen plaque, with the money to go to the Transgender Law Center.
The other 18 honorees on the sidewalk all spelled correctly, and in the organizers' eyes, deserve just as much attention as the two who suffered typos.
They are: The first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams; Novelist James Baldwin, AIDS activist George Choy; Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca; artist Keith Haring; Beat poet Allen Ginsberg; writer Harry Hay; disco star Sylvester James; feminist Del Martin; Japanese playwright Yukio Mishima; Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; civil rights activist Bayard Rustin; journalist and author Randy Shilts; writer Gertrude Stein; scientist Alan Turing; Gay Games founder Tom Waddell; dramatist Tennessee Williams and novelist Virginia Woolf.
Amendola's day job is giving tours of the Castro, and she said when the plaques are finished, she'll be giving specific walks by the special sidewalk.
When that happens, she'll be able to point out where the spelling errors used to be.
They must be hard up for heroes if they have to pick a man who converted to Catholicism before he died.
Oscar Wilde was all about Oscar. He had become a celebrity.
But he was married (he had written great poems to his future wife) and had children - and he did convert to Catholicism on his deathbed, because he knew that his frolics had done harm to many people.
These stories always make me sad. If puppies had anything to do with sex (don’t tell me if they actually do in San Francisco, I DON’T want to know!), they’d demand that a child who thinks he’s a puppy should be allowed to change his name to Spot and drink from a bowl on the floor. Mental illness is not okay merely because it’s connected to sex, as we will learn eventually. Unfortunately, we’ll sacrifice hundreds (thousands?) of children a year to today’s political correctness before we learn.
Note: I’ve left God out of my comments both because SF rejected God long ago and because my point stands even without reference to God. However, I can’t imagine a more hateful response to someone’s sexual confusion than to endorse a path that violates God’s Word. The idea of telling someone, “go ahead - the suicide rate is much higher, the risk of deadly diseases including AIDS is much higher, and it’s a violation of scripture, but other than that there’s nothing wrong with it, so do what you want” repulses me. Intentionally leading children astray is an act of supreme evil, and I can’t imagine what motivates the far left to act in that manner.
Damn autocorrect.
Must be hell putting a sidewalk through a typewriter.
The carriage return must be amazing to see!
Some good artists here but a lot of drugs, suicides (and if I recall), general mental illness and one disembowelment.
Oh, and I think Turing was a pedophile with a police record. Forgot that.
This “Honor Walk” is discriminatory of people of other perversions.
Intentionally leading children astray is an act of supreme evil, and I can’t imagine what motivates the far left to act in that manner.
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Oh, I can imagine what motivates them: Satan.
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