President Donald Trump's crusade against transgender people has brought the fight back to New York City's most famous gay bar.
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 gathered at Stonewall National Monument to express their outrage ... Bernie Wagenblast, a transgender activist and well-known voice of the New York City subway, vowed to resist the administration's actions. "I am not going to allow any ...
“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.
Brendan Fay of the Lavender and Green Alliance says the Trump administration "seeks to scapegoat and render invisible those in our community who are transgender."
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.
The Trump administration has erased references to transgender people from New York's Stonewall National Monument website. On the National Park Service website, the acronym LGBTQ+ has been shortened to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay and bisexual.
The National Park Service scrubbed references to transgender and queer people from a 1969 Stonewall Uprising monument website, igniting protests in New York.
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.
The LGBTQ+ organization received a grant for $276,000 from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners last week.
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.”