Sylvia Began Fighting for Gay And Rights

No, it’s not a typo. It’s 🏳️‍⚧️ erasure.

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As New York’s Stonewall monument webpage for the “Virtual Fence Exhibit” informed us earlier this month: Sylvia Rivera began “fighting for gay and transgender rights.”

Yet this is what it says right now: “Sylvia began fighting for gay and rights.”

That’s because the U.S. National Park Service right now is deleting the word transgender. They’re deleting TQ from every mention of LGBTQ. They’re deleting the word trans.

Here’s a page that NPS hasn’t gotten to quite yet. It still says “LGBTQ history.” It still links, ironically, to an organization called “History Unerased.”

A photo of “five visitors and one park ranger” with “rainbow flags” (on the left) has been…