Overview

• July updates to the Stonewall National Monument website removed all references to bisexual and transgender individuals from its history pages
• Archived snapshots reveal the acronym shifted from LGBTQ+ to LGB in April before being altered to “gay and lesbian” by late May
• LGBTQ+ activists have held demonstrations at the New York City landmark and collected more than 47,000 petition signatures calling for accurate inclusion
• GLAAD and other advocacy groups denounced the edits as politically driven attempts to erase queer contributions under President Trump’s anti-DEI directives
• The National Park Service has declined to reverse the changes despite a broader campaign that scrubbed over 8,000 pages of LGBTQ+ resources from federal websites