'Transgender,' 'queer' removed from Stonewall National Monument website
The National Park Service has removed the words "transgender" and "queer" from the website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York, a major landmark for the LGBTQ movement,
The National Park Service has removed the words “transgender” and “queer” from the website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York, a major landmark for the LGBTQ movement, as it complies with an executive order from President Trump.
The national monument, a park, commemorates the 1969 protests at the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. Gay, lesbian and transgender people at the inn fought back against a police raid on June 28, 1969, and protested for several days afterward. A year later, activists held one of the first pride parades in the U.S. near the scene of the uprising.