The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) reportedly deleted several web pages about transgender activists and LGBTQ history.
According to an NPR article Published On Wednesday, the outlet said there were no more pages “dedicated” to people, including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
“Both were transgender activists and important figures in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Protesting police during the attack on a gay bar in Greenwich Village was a flashpoint for the LGBTQ civil rights struggle (photos of Johnson remain on the NPS site, but they do not mention her role.”
The NPS website still has pages title LGBT Heritage Initiatives and their Pages detail Facts about Rivera, Johnson and another individual named Stormo Dellarvery who took part in the Stonewall uprising.
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The web page states: “Rivera and Johnson were both important community organizers who worked on the streets of New York City to protect young people in inappropriate communities. Delarverie was a drug performer, lesbian advocate, and there was a cry of protest. “Why not do something?” – Stonewall customers reportedly united to resist police violence. ”
The NPS comes after transgender activists were angry after the NP scrubbed the word “trans” from the Stonewall National Monument website, Breitbart News reported in February.
Recent NPR articles continued:
Much of the censorship appears to be slipshods. Several links to “theme surveys,” including dozens of pages of LGBTQ US history, I'm dead now;others It's going well. The letters “T” and “Q” in the “transgender” and “queer” positions have been excised from the LGBTQ acronyms on some NPS web pages, but remain on other web pages. NPS page dedicated to the achievements of civil rights activist and Anglican priest Pauli Murray, And it argues about her gender identity and no longer worksbut Links showing her family home remains active.
NPS has completely shut down several sites, including one About Gay History in Philadelphiasomething commemorative Black LGBTQ bars currently closed Washington DC and a Page about American preachers in the 18th century Apparently he was a gender inconsistent.
It is important to note that President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to “protect women from gender ideological extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government.”
The order states, “The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive effect on the effectiveness of not only women, but the entire American system. Being based on federal government policies on truth is important for scientific research, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.”
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