Protests in NY as ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ scrubbed from rights website

Breitbart ^ | February 14, 2025 | Amy Furr

[Morgana]

The National Park Service has scrubbed references to transgender and queer people from the website of a monument to the 1969 Stonewall riots, a foundational moment in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, igniting protests in New York City on Friday.

The move comes as President Donald Trump has sought a return to a strict binary definition of gender in the United States, leading attacks on transgender people and issuing an executive order that states the country only has two genders — male and female.

The website — managed by the National Park Service, a branch of the federal government — had provided information about the monument, which includes a visitor center as well as the famed Stonewall Inn.

The small Greenwich Village gay bar was raided by police on June 28, 1969, igniting six days of rioting that birthed the modern gay rights movement, later extended to transgender and non-binary people, who do not identify as male or female.

But on Friday the widely-used “LGBTQ” acronym — which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer — had been changed throughout the website to “LGB” and all reference to transgender or queer people erased.

Several hundred people carried signs bearing slogans such as “Silence = death” and “there’s no Stonewall without the T” as they rallied in New York City against the move.

“This is just cruel and petty,” posted New York Governor Kathy Hochul on social media.

[gundog]

They’ll give you such a slap!

[dfwgator]

They’ll scratch your eyes out.

[Morgana]

They will scream and cry like two year olds

[albie]

“ “igniting protests in New York City on Friday.”

…now there’s a good reason to mask up!!

[gundog]

Watch out for this dude....

[Salamander]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of genders suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

[NorthMountain]

Why are we maintaining, as a National Park, a monument to a bunch of filthy disease-ridden queers?

[gundog]

Silenced? That’ll be the day.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This isn’t my area of expertise, but isn’t the “Q” for “Questioning” because “Queer” is already covered by gay and lesbian.

And what about the “+” people? Isn’t anybody sticking up for them.

When are they going to add “P” to the mix for “Pervert”?

[SaxxonWoods]

So entertaining.

[Bernard]

The website — managed by the National Park Service, a branch of the federal government

This looks like a paraphrase of a line from "Miracle on 34th Street".

[BenLurkin]

Mental illness and sexual perversion.

Odd things to list as “rights” in the first place.

[Salamander]

Eventually their squeals of impotent rage will only be audible to dogs.

[monkeyshine]

I thought Q was for questioning. Lesbian and gay are already queer, no? Seems redundant.

[Salamander]

P is for Paraphilia and that covers all of them.

[Rummyfan]

Why are we maintaining, as a National Park, a monument to a bunch of filthy disease-ridden queers?

A good question.

[ViLaLuz]

Stonewall is a national disgrace. It shouldn’t be a national park.

[Honorary Serb]

Abolish the so-called “Stonewall National Monument”!

Tear the building down, and put up something beautiful instead!

[gundog]

Ah-ah....can’t say “queer.”