President Donald Trump's crusade against transgender people has brought the fight back to New York City's most famous gay bar.
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
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.
Protesters are expected at the Stonewall National Monument Friday after references to trans and queer people were removed​ from the National Park Service website​.
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.
The Trump administration has withdrawn federal funding from the Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in Fort Lauderdale, a prominent institution dedicated to preserving and educating about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.
Stonewall protests against trans erasure in New York City.
History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall." The National Park Service did not respond to NPR's request for comment. In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was raided by police, igniting fierce riots and ...
References to "transgender" and "queer" were scrubbed from the Stonewall website following muliple executive orders from the Trump Administration.
New York’s political class, out of step as usual with the popular mood, thinks it’s still 2017, and that its job is to “#Resist.”