The National Park Service removed references to the word “transgender” from the Stonewall National Monument website in apparent compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding that the government recognize only two genders: male and female.
The website now refers to “LGB” civil rights at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, where trans women of color including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were instrumental to the battle for LGBTQ+ rights. The Park Service also removed a recommended reading list relating to the Stonewall Uprising and the legacy of the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement. With thanks to the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, here is a list of those now-deleted resources:
Stonewall History Resources
- Stonewall Fact Sheet
- Stonewall First Anniversary Pride March Fact Sheet
- Stonewall Inn Historic Overview, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
- Making Gay History Podcast Stonewall Season
- “Stonewall: The Making of a Monument” NY Times Op-Doc
- Stonewall National Monument 3-D Tour
- Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (the definitive book on the Stonewall uprising)
- “The Stonewall You Know is a Myth”
- “Stonewall Uprising,” PBS American Experience documentary
- National Park Service Scholars Essays on National Significance of Stonewall and the Stonewall National Monument (five essays)
Books, Articles, Essays, and Other Literary Pieces about Black LGBTQ+ Experiences
These anthologies are recommended for broader experiences:
- The National Park Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service and Gill Foundation. LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study – Telling All Americans’ Stories (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov). Washington D. C. 2016
- The New York Public Library eds. The Stonewall Reader. Penguin Reader. 2019. Print.
These are about specific experiences:
