The historic New York City Gay Barstone Wall Inn held a rally on Friday to protest the elimination of transgender people’s landmark websites.
The National Park Service has removed “T” from “T”LGBTQ+ “Acronyms and official Stonewall National Official References to Transgender People Website Thursday. The erasure follows Trump’s executive order to deny the existence of trans people and remove them from other government websites along with LGBTQ+ resources.
Those who hold bricks during a protest outside the Stonewall Inn in New York were riots in 1969 against a police attack at a gay bar, and on February 14th, the term “transgender” was announced as the National Park Service. Riot after being erased from the web page.Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
Before that revision, on a recent Wednesday, NPS Website Introduction: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) was illegal.” Now, “before the 1960s, lesbian, gay, gay, , Almost everything about living openly as a bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. Movement.”
The Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall Inn are back initiatives that employees organized protests, which they said in a statement that they were “enthussed and appalled” by censorship, calling it “a blatant act of erasure.” Our history too, it also disgraces the enormous contributions of trans individuals, especially trans women, who were at the forefront of the Stonewall riots, and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. ”
At a rally outside the Stonewall Inn on February 14 in New York City, people protest the removal of the word “trans” from the Stonewall National Monument website. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
“Let us be clear: Stonewall is a history of transgenderness. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and countless other trans and genderless individuals are brave and often great personal risks. “We fought against the oppressive system,” the group said. “Their courage, sacrifice and leadership have been the center of resistance we are celebrating now as the basis for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.”
“This decision to erase the word “transgender” is a deliberate attempt to alienate the very people who erased our history and paved the way for the many victories we have achieved as a community. It was a direct attack on trans people, especially trans women, they continued. “We request the immediate repair of the word “transgender” on the Stonewall National Monument website. We can’t wait while the legacy of our trans brothers is erased from the history book. ”
At a rally outside the Stonewall Inn on February 14 in New York City, people protest the removal of the word “trans” from the Stonewall National Monument website. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The 1969 Stonewall Riots – the protests in response to a police attack on gay bars – are widely believed to spark a modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. “At the forefront of the riots and early movements there were women of transgender and gender-incompatible colours, such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Miss Griffin Gracie.” Law of 2019 article If 50th Anniversary.
“The record is clear. From the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement in the 1960s until today, transgender people have been the center of the fight for equality,” he said in response to Trump’s censorship. “As an American history museum, we do not support this attempt to erase transgender people from Stonewall National Monument. LGBs do not exist without T and Q.”
Members of the LBGTQ+ community and allies will protest the removal of the word “transgender” from the Stonewall National Monument website during a rally outside the historic The Stonewall Inn on February 14th in New York City. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
The Stonewall Landmark in Greenwich Village was designated as a national memorial in June 2016 by President Barack Obama. This was the first NPS site to acknowledge the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the US.
“The move to erase transgender people from Stonewall National Monument is cruel, pathetic and historically inaccurate,” says Chuck, a New York Democrat and Senate minority leader. Senator Schumer said in a statement. The event at Stonewall and its key role in the movement for equality that inspired it. Park services should quickly turn themselves around. ”
At a rally outside the Stonewall Inn on February 14 in New York City, people protest the removal of the word “trans” from the Stonewall National Monument website. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The decision to change “LGBTQ+” to “LGB” on the Stonewall National Monument page is another Trump administration’s blatant attempt to discriminate and erase the legacy of transgender and queer Americans. It’s an example,” said a Glaad spokesman. “The Stonewall uprising, a monumental moment in the fight over LGBTQ+ rights, wouldn’t have happened without the leadership of transgender and gender-incompatible people.”
“The tireless work of Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and countless other trans women of colours has paved the way and continues to inspire us,” they continued. “You can try to erase our history, but we will never forget those who have come before us. We will continue to fight for all those who will come after us. ”
The sign for Stonewall National Monument was a scene of people protesting outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, and the word “transgender,” a scene from the riots against a police attack at Gay Bar on February 14, 1969, was marked by the National Park Service. It can be seen after it has been deleted from the web. A page about the riots. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
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