Hundreds Protest Trump At Stonewall Monument

Gothamist reports:

The Trump administration removed references to transgender and queer people from an official webpage for the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, drawing widespread recrimination from lawmakers and New York’s influential queer community. Hundreds of people swarmed the monument Friday, carrying LGBTQ+ Pride flags, along with signs reading “there’s no Stonewall without the T” and similar messages opposing the erasure of LGBTQ+ people.

“The sloppiness of just trying to erase a ‘T’ to enact some kind of fantasy about human sexuality is both stupid and unacceptable from the standpoint of history,” said Tia Schellstede, who stood just outside of Christopher Park as speakers addressed the crowd. Allen Roskoff, a longtime LGBTQ+ rights activist and president of the local Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, said the erasure of references to transgender and queer people was a “foreshadowing” of what’s to come over the next four years.

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A rally was held today at the Stonewall Natl Monument to protest the US Park Service’s removal on its website of individuals identifying as transgender and QueerLISTEN – @MackRosenberg reports from the scene: https://t.co/1y4ANkWEBI pic.twitter.com/yXd8xiI8WO

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Photos: Stonewall site of protest after mentions of transgender removed from national park website https://t.co/YGB8A08Ybj

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