Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan was named one of the most endangered places in the United States in an annual preservation list by the National Trust for Historic Preservation ahead of the nation’s 250th independence anniversary. The Greenwich Village site’s inclusion followed federal actions affecting LGBTQ+ history. The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from the Christopher Park monument’s official website entry and removed the rainbow pride flag from the site under a mandate limiting flags to the U.S. flag. The National Trust cited threats to historically accurate interpretation, community representation, and educational impact, including participation of the full range of LGBTQ+ people in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Local activists restored the rainbow flag within days, and the Gilbert Baker Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
"The Stonewall National Monument was named one of the most endangered places in the United States in an annual list put out by the National Trust for Historic Preservation ahead of the 250th anniversary of the nation's independence. The Greenwich Village site's inclusion on the list comes amid President Trump's increasing efforts to control the narrative surrounding LGBTQ+ history."
"Last February, the National Park Service (NPS) scrubbed all references to transgender individuals from the official website entry for the Christopher Park monument, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Earlier this year, the agency quietly removed the rainbow pride flag from the site in accordance with a government mandate outlining that only the US flag could be flown there."
""The National Monument faces federal actions and policy changes that endanger the site's historically accurate interpretation, community representation, and educational impact, including the participation of the full range of LGBTQ+ people in the Stonewall Uprising," the National Trust wrote."
"With support from city officials, local queer rights activists defied the mandate and restored the rainbow flag to the Stonewall National Monument within days of its removal this winter. The Gilbert Baker Foundation, representing the late namesake artist who designed the flag in 1979, quickly filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration."
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