Trans community removed from National Park Service’s Dupont Circle website

The National Park Service, which owns and maintains Dupont Circle as one of the national parks in the National Capital Region, has removed all mentions to trans people from a website dedicated to Dupont Circle’s history.

The website changes in the use of the term “LGB” in the term “LGBT” have been announced on February 13th that the National Park Service has been involved in the use of the term “LGB” from its website for the Stonewall National Memorial in Greenwich Village, New York City. Apparently came right after removing all references to people. We have drawn expressions of anger from the LGBTQ community.

Apart from removing “T” and all other references to the trans people, the National Park Service stayed on the Dupont Circle website, with a detailed description of the circle’s “LGB history.”

“Situated at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire Streets in northwestern Washington, DC, Dupont Circle has been serving as a diplomat, government official, war memorial and neighboring anchor for LGB communities for over 200 years. “The status of the website.

“In the 1970s, Dupont Circle became a welcome venue for the city’s LGB community,” continues the Dupont Circle history account. “Activist Deacon McCubin has opened the “Head Shop,” the “craft store,” the city’s first openly gay business, not a bar,” says the city.

Additionally, McCubin opened the Lambda Rising Bookstore in the Dupont Circle area, with other “gay” organizations nearby, including the gay blade that later became Washington’s blades.

Maccubbin points out that in 1975 it organized the city’s first “Gay Pride Pride Day” around Dupont Circle, which has evolved into DC’s annual Pride Festival and parade.

The website contains photos of Dupont Circle taken at the 2022 DC Pride Festival. This includes those who display a flag representing the trans community.

DC’s local LGBTQ group did not immediately comment on the removal of trans references to the Dupont Circle’s National Park Services website. However, LGBTQ groups, including groups representing the New York trans community, have denounced the removal of trans references to Stonewall National Monument.

“Transgender people play a key role in the fight over LGBTQ+ rights, and New York will never allow them to erase their contributions,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement.

The longtime DC Trans Rights Advocate Earline Budd is part of the Trump Vance administration’s national effort to remove trans references from the National Park Service’s Dupont Circle website, part of the Trump Vance administration’s national effort to remove trans rights from all federal programs .

“So it’s not just here. We’re being removed from everything,” Bud told the Washington Blade. “Any federal government that we’ve been removed based on the presidential mission,” she said. “It’s a really scary time, what’s going on in this administration.”