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NOTE: As of February 13, 2025, the official National Park Service website for Stonewall National Monument has been scrubbed of all references to transgender people. But the T in LGBTQ+ is essential to the entire queer (Q) community — there is no LGBTQ without the T, and this is especially true in the case of Stonewall. This page attempts to reconstruct what the Trump administration is attempting to suppress with the help of the Wayback Machine.
NOTE: The current version of the National Park Service Stonewall National Monument website, which can be found here, appears to have been stripped of all references to trans people by way of poorly crafted code that simply snipped the “transgender, or queer” and “TQ+” from the applicable sentences without correcting the resulting grammatical errors.
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
A rainbow flag with the Stonewall National Monument Established 2016 with the NPS arrowhead flying in Christopher Park NPS Photo
NOTE: This section has been especially butchered by the administration’s culling of queer history. The official NPS site has only the rainbow Pride flag, alongside the same automatically edited text found elsewhere on the Stonewall National Monument site. None of the explanations of the other Pride flags are included.
The term LGBTQ+ covers so many different marginalized identities and communities. To help preserve and protect the resources and values of these groups, Stonewall National Monument will be displaying flags on site during various times throughout the year. All of these will be dependent on the weather and unforeseen events.
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Asexual Awareness Week is celebrated during the last full week of October – it is dedicated to expanding asexual education. Despite the title “Asexual Awareness Week,” the festivities include celebrating people on all ends of the asexuality spectrum! Why is this week important? Most people don’t know that asexuality exists, and even among those who do, there is a stigma of misunderstanding; many people believe asexual people are sick, lying, or repressed.
In fact, until 2013, asexuality was considered a mental illness that needed to be treated. Asexual Awareness Week is a time for us to break the stigma and learn the truths about asexuality– what it is, and what it isn’t. Asexual activists have worked hard to make sure everyone’s voice is heard, regardless of how they identify. This Ace Week, take some time to get to know some of the most famous asexuals throughout history!
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