Written Out Of History Again!

From the 2019 NYC Pride Parade

Yeah but this time it is by Trump. In his order to remove everything about trans from the federal government... early in the year he had us scrubbed from the Stonewall National Monument!

Pride Month display at NYC's Stonewall National Monument excludes transgender flags

CBS News

By Dave Carlin

June 20, 2025 

The transgender flags that usually adorn the Stonewall National Monument in New York City during Pride Month were missing this year, so some New Yorkers are taking matters into their own hands.

This comes as the National Park Service is accused of actively erasing transgender visibility and history.

During June, Pride flags are placed around the park's fence. They usually include a mixture of rainbow LGBTQ+ flags, transgender flags and progress flags, which have stripes to include communities of color.

Photographer and advocate Steven Love Menendez said he created and won federal approval for the installation nine years ago. Within a few years, the National Park Service was picking up the tab, buying and installing flags, including trans ones.

Per Trump's order... we were wiped from history!

‘Prouder, louder’: NYC Pride pushes back as LGBTQ+ rights are rolled back

Gothamist

By Giulia Heyward

Jun 20, 2025

The transgender pride flag won’t be part of this year’s Pride display at the national park near the Stonewall Inn, which typically transforms each June into a sea of rainbow and trans pride flags lining its perimeter.

Although the National Park Service had previously covered the cost of the trans pride flags, the agency shifted gears this year, only agreeing to fund rainbow flags at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, according to Steve Love Menendez, the artist and activist who created the display.

The move comes after the department removed other references to trans people as part of an executive order from President Donald Trump. It is one of many rollbacks of legal and symbolic protections for LGBTQ+ Americans launched under the new administration in the five months since Trump took office.

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“There are lots of public spaces where queer people — trans people, in particular — are being told ‘You don’t belong,’” Brim said. “And that echoes very much the message of the pre-Stonewall era. I think people are feeling, in some ways, similar to then and that time."

Brim noted that many groups in the United States, including immigrants, communities of color and women, have been targeted by recent federal policies. But, he said, the attacks on LGBTQ+ people evoke earlier eras of government-led discrimination, drawing parallels to the 1950s "Lavender Scare" and the Clinton-era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

We were erased once and we came back... We were erased twice and we came back... And we will clawed back from Trump's hatred!

Don't let the bastard get you down.

We vow that the work that Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera did will not be in vain!

Trans people don’t just survive—we lead.

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