#stonewall

[our-queer-experience]

via s. baum at erin in the morning

[squidhominid]

About Marsha P. Johnson

So, someone reblogged my Stonewall protest poster claiming that Marsha P. Johnson 'did not like being called a trans woman' and referring to her as a he/him drag queen, and I was initially going to look the other way, but it just, bothered me enough I finally wanted to say something about it.

The 1980s were a different time. Back then, the distinction between being trans and simply being in drag was a lot more fluid. Marsha P. Johnson was not 'not a trans woman', she simply drew a distinction that I don't think we would naturally come to today. That being, a continuum of identities between 'drag', what she called a 'transvestite', and what she called 'transsexual'.

To her, a 'drag queen' was someone who presented feminine some of the time, a 'transvestite' was someone who presented feminine all of the time, and a 'transsexual' was someone who medically transitioned. The term 'trans woman' was not in use at the time, and would not have occurred to her. She, personally, identified as a 'transvestite' under her definitions, and she used she/her pronouns, contrary to the insistence by this Tumblr user that she did not and that she 'did not like' the term trans woman being applied to her.

tl;dr? Please, god, learn some fucking history, and stop using a warped version of history to justify bigotry, because before you blocked me I had the chance to see some pretty nasty and blatantly transphobic stuff on your blog. Thanks.

[typhlonectes]

[overwroughtafterthought]

You can represent all of us, or none of us

Here’s a direct link to the National Park Service’s Stonewall page.

If you scroll down, there’s a section that says “Was this page helpful?”. If you select ‘no’, it will bring up a feedback box and you can let them know how you feel about the changes made to the page.

Here’s an example of what I put:

[socialistexan]

[maddiee-line]

Went to Stonewall today to fight back! Let’s continue to be proud of who we are and show the world we are all beautiful and here to stay!

w/ @harper-sage

Edit: Responses to this have been amazing. Thank you all for the kind words and sharing. I’m gonna do my best to be out there for our community. Follow me for more? 👉🏻👈🏻

[homoerotic-ads]

The US Park Service has removed the Q and T from LGBTQ+ on their site, as of Feb 13, 2025

Where it used to say LGBTQ+, it now says LGB. All mentions of pride flags besides the rainbow have been removed. On their virtual fence exhibit page, any mention of Zazu Nova, who is thought by many to be the first brick thrower, being a trans woman has been removed. The recommended reading list under History & Culture is gone.

These changes, and more, can be confirmed for yourself by looking at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The above link is their contact page where you can call, send an email, a letter, or message or tag them on their social media to demand the return of LGBTQ+.

[tilbageidanmark]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City today in 1994

[commiepinkofag]

LGBTQ Muslims Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Front of Stonewall

One-hundred LGBTQ Muslims gathered for a jummah prayer for Palestine in front of the Stonewall National Monument on Friday to demonstrate that there is “no pride in genocide.��� “Queer Muslim New Yorkers are rising up in solidarity with Palestinians, and through a queer Muslim-led interfaith prayer, they will stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are facing genocide, starvation, and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli government backed by the United States,” organizers said in a statement. “Queer communities face historical discrimination, prejudice, violence, criminalization, lack of proper healthcare and/or gender affirming care, and more — and here in the U.S. queer activists have been rising up against increased LGBTQ+ attacks, yet their struggles are being exploited in a dangerous narrative war to suggest that there would be no place for queer people in Palestine,”

[ 📷 Stonewall Park, NYC, Dec 15, 2023. © Graham MacIndoe ]

[myhotplaythingsreblogs4]

[squidhominid]

So the National Park Service removed any mention of trans people from the page on the Stonewall National Monument. And removed the word 'transgender' from the page on Sylvia Rivera.

Hell no. Trans women of color built the gay rights movement. Full stop.

Check my Mastodon for a version of this at 300 DPI printable resolution! Take copies to a Stonewall protest and hand them out, if you're going to one!

[starplanes]

The National Park Service has removed all mentions of "transgender" on their websites, most notably the website for the Stonewall National Monument (yes, that Stonewall).

You can tell them off for this! Go to this page, scroll down to the bottom, inform them the page was not helpful, and then you get 500 characters to tell them how you feel about their erasure of trans people on their website.

Incidentally, there's no limit on how many times you can refresh the page and leave a new comment.

[typhlonectes]

[the-asexuality-blog]

Note that in the description the T has been removed. All mention of trans people has been scrubbed from the explanation of the Stonewall Riots/Movement. Please go to this page and scroll to the bottom. Where it asks if this page has been helpful, click No. In the box asking for more information, type that trans people were essential players in the Stonewall movement and that our exclusion is unacceptable.

[azuremist]

The National Park Service has removed mentions of transgender people’s involvement with Stonewall. They have removed all usage of the word “transgender”, and have changed all usages of “LGBTQ+” to “LGB”.

This pride, we riot

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

The government cannot erase trans people from LGBT+ history.

We're here. We're queer. And we will not be erased.

-fae