The National Park Service website underwent alterations where bisexual representation was removed from the Stonewall National Monument page, following similar actions regarding transgender references. Initially acknowledging LGBTQ+ individuals' struggles, the site faced backlash and restored some terms. However, the site now refers only to gay and lesbian civil rights, omitting bisexual representation. Further discrepancies arose when the historical context of Bayard Rustin's home page was altered, suggesting intentional exclusion of certain identities, prompting concerns over ongoing representation issues within federal narratives.
Before the Trump administration started altering the website, the National Park Service's website about the Stonewall National Monument originally acknowledged that almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal prior to the 1960s.
By July 15 five days after Reed reported on the omission the word bisexual was back in the sentence. However, bisexual representation continues to be omitted elsewhere on the site.
The History & Culture page states that the Stonewall Uprising was a milestone for gay and lesbian civil rights, despite previously saying gay, bisexual, and lesbian civil rights.
A National Park Service spokesperson told Gay City News earlier this year that the removal of the letters T and Q from the Stonewall National Monument as well as the removal of bisexual representation were intentional.
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