President Donald Trump's crusade against transgender people has brought the fight back to New York City's most famous gay bar.
Protesters gathered at Stonewall National Monument to express their outrage over the removal of transgender and queer references from the National Par
After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters filled nearby Christopher Park Friday with a simple message: “You can’t erase us.
LGBTQ+ activists gathered at Christopher Park, just across from the historic Stonewall Inn, to protest against the removal of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the
“Stonewall would not be Stonewall without the T,” trans demonstrator Chloe Elentari told Salon. “National Park Service: You can’t spell history without a T,” one sign read. Another demonstrator wrote the word “transgender” on a sign noting the monument.
But sadly it’s also nothing new, especially for trans women of color regarding the truth about their central role in the Stonewall Inn riots in New York’s Greenwich Village that sparked the modern LGBTQ movement in 1969.
Several hundred people with LGBTQ flags rallied at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday, a day after references to transgender Americans disappeared from the U.S. National Park Service website for the New York site commemorating a gay bar where resistance to a 1969 police raid sparked a civil rights movement.
The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ rioters – including now-legendary transgender activists – galvanized a movement for LGBTQ rights.
On the National Park Service website, the acronym LGBTQ+ has been shortened to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay and bisexual.
The Trump administration has withdrawn federal funding from the Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in Fort Lauderdale, a prominent institution dedicated to preserving and educating about LGBTQ+ history.
The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday, which now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual. What used to be listed as LGBTQ+, has been changed to LGB.