God Hates Facts and Straights Only - A Street Art Love Story

Street artist Castroburger has been putting up 'God Hates Facts' and 'Straights Only' to call attention to issues relating to homosexuality.  But it is not just a street campaign, it is a love affair on the streets~

The street art is inspired by a love affair where the lovers prevented from being together due to political red tape.  Read below the plight that Castroburger is undergoing with his separated lover, and show your support for the cause.

Straights Only, the latest DOMA protest art by Castroburger, is a play on the Whites Only signs of segregated America. Castroburger, whose first time sticker campaign God Hates Facts, continues to make an impact in Los Angeles and beyond, believes there is no clearer display of inequality.

“After my boyfriend had to go back home to the UK in February, I needed a way to vent my frustration and came up with Straights Only after reading a story about a Whites Only sign put up at a public pool in Ohio in 2011.

My intent is to shock the viewer before they read the small print and discover this is about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which was set up in 1996 to ‘protect traditional marriage’.

So far this year DOMA has kept my boyfriend 5500 miles away for 4 months and forced us to spend our 5^th anniversary apart.

And we’re not alone in this situation. There are tens of thousands of other same-sex couples facing considerable time apart each year.”

Straights Only/God Hates Facts stickers have spread to Mexico, Latin America, Austin, Chicago, North Carolina, Arizona, England, and Scotland and Castroburger hopes this is just the beginning.

“We want to make an impact not just in the big cities but in communities like the one I grew up in, Denton, Texas.”

A Castroburger bigcartel store has been created for anyone who’d like to get involved HERE.

“All proceeds fund my boyfriend’s visa fees.

I asked my boyfriend if he could summarize our struggle for this post and he sent me this:

5 years, 1 month ‘together’

$11,000 on flights

143,000 miles flown

312 hours in the air

$4000 visa process

930 missed days together

Need we say more?”

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