Trump administration has erased links to transgenders from the New York National Monument site.
Upon The National Park Service SiteThe abbreviation LGBTQ+ has been reduced to LGB, which stands behind lesbians, gays and bisexuals.
Other state sites were also changed after President Donald Trump signed an order, recognizing only two hollows – men and women – on his first day.
Activists announced this step on Friday and carried out a protest rally on the site, which is the first national monument to the country dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history.
“There is no pride without trans-people who are fighting this struggle!”-Stacey Lenz, co-owner of Stonewall Inn and Stonewall Inn CEO gives the initiative, wrote on Instagram in a message reporting about the protest.
“Trying to erase them from the homeland of the modern movement LGBTQ+ rights will not happen!”
The National Park Department of Public Affairs stated that the agency had launched the executive order signed by President Trump, which describes the “restoration of the biological truth of the federal government,” a statement sent to the New York Times.
The BBC appealed to the National Park service for comment.
On the old version of the Park Service web -sacrifice, preserved digital web -arching Wayback Machine, monument the main page Read: “By the 1960s, almost everything about open life as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or Queer (LGBTQ+) was illegal.”
The updated web page now says: “By the 1960s, almost everything about open life as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) was illegal.”
Some other transgender links remain on the site, Including the document is the founder For the national monument Stone -Uol.
A police raid in 1969 in Gay -Barai Stonewall Inn in New York led to the riot, which became the main turning point in pressing the gay torn.
Former President Barack Obama appointed him a US national monument in 2016. The monument covers 7.7 hectares of land, including the park.
In A statement On Thursday, The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn gives Stone’s initiative that it was “indignant” when changes.
“This arrogant act of erasing not only distorts the truth of our history, but also carried a huge contribution of the transgender man,” the statement reads.
New York Governor Katiel called the changes “cruel and small”.
On Friday, there was a protest against the change of the site, which took place next to the Stone -Ool monument. Demonstrators detained posters with signs such as “National Park Service, you can’t write” History “.