#stonewall

[typhlonectes]

[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? 👉🏻👈🏻

[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!

[tilbageidanmark]

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

[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+.

[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 ]

[lgbtqtext]

[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.

[presidentalpaca]

[our-queer-experience]

via s. baum at erin in the morning

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

The government cannot erase trans people from LGBT+ history.

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

-fae

[disruptiveempathy]

People put so much into seeing Stonewall as this symbol. And at the time we just thought, ‘Oh, I guess it’s just that time of the month when cops raid the bar, so they can make their numbers for arresting fags for the month of June.’ But people get so concerned about the details. I don’t know about all the crap I’ve heard all these years. Sometimes it’s ‘Oh, someone threw a high-heel shoe.’ Sometimes it’s ‘No, gurl, it was a Molotov cocktail,’ or ‘Somebody slugged a cop.’ All I know is that night, they came in, and nobody budged. I guess we were just sick of their shit. And suddenly we were fighting, and we were kicking their ass. The cops had to back up into the bar. We had them cornered. Next thing you knew, the riot squad was there, and baby, it was on. ‘The night of Stonewall’ is how people talk about it, but it was more like a week. People want to know the little details, but what I remember most is being scared as hell. We were fighting for our lives. They’re still killing us; they’re still not giving us the respect we’re due for putting up with their shit all these years. I’m giving you the facts about how shit’s been from the beginning, and what’s gone on, how the law was in our daily lives—the facts! And so with regard to that producer lady, the whole time I just thought to myself, ‘There’s gonna be so much of me on the cutting-room floor.’

—Miss Major, from Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

[genderkoolaid]

from the Digital Transgender Archive.

The cross-dresser in question is believed to be Stormé DeLarverie, a Black drag king, bouncer and "gay superhero." She was interviewed as a transgender warrior in Leslie Feinberg's book of the same name.

This is not the only example of transmasculine involvement in Stonewall, either: "The [Women's House of Detention] was just 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn, and when the riot broke out, the women and transmasculine people held there joined in, setting fire to their belongings and tossing them into the street below."