At this rate, a few months from now the L & G will be removed too, and then any reference to Stonewall entirely. Sucks for them though that the internet exists and no matter what they "erase" it won't ever go away.
"At Stonewall, protestors heaved bricks through the windows to build a monument to Jesus inside a filthy filthy queer bar. Today we remember that moment through thoughts and prayers."
The same people that screamed about removing Confederate statues because "You can't change history just because you don't like it", are actively trying to change history, because they don't like it. That tracks.
they’re taking advantage of already existing biphobia in the queer community to attempt to further drive us apart. they’re hoping lesbians and gays will abandon trans people and everyone else. even more proof (though was it really needed?) that exclusion within the queer community is detrimental to our cause
My son gifted me a trip to New York City. I remember standing on the sidewalk and getting tears looking at Stonewall. I remember thinking how much our world had changed and how grateful I was. Now I get teary-eyed thinking how bad it is.
The MAGAT ADMINISTRATION is hell bent to erase the fact that their God supposedly created the universe just for them and that their “Satan” is creating demons in the form of the LGBTQIA Community,specially the Transgender community! But it’s not going to stop there because it’s not just us, it’s everyone else who is different from them! All people who aren’t White Anglo-Saxon Evangelical Men are their targets! And their women are nothing more than property!
News Flash MAGAT Assholes, we’re born every single day of the year and WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE BITCHES! 😈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
As if bi people are not already erased enough 🙄🩷💜💙 It seems the administration is trying to reverse history. Bisexual people fought really hard to have the “B” added to the acronym. Even though there still exists a false dichotomy of either being “gay or straight” that erases bi identity and even though bisexuality is often mistakenly scapegoated and thought to somehow be “binary” when it can totally include attraction to people of all genders, regardless of gender, etc. the bi community has persisted and is an integral part of the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Bi folks also make up the largest percentage of the LGBTQ+ community, so erasing them erases over half the community. Looks like Trump is knocking off the letters one by one. He’ll probably get rid of the “L” next and just write “gay” on the webpage. Totally disgraceful. NO LGBT without the B and T!!!!
UPDATE: it appears the monument has returned “bisexual” at least to its homepage! For some reason, Substack won’t let me post a screenshot of the updated webpage in this comment, but if you go to the NPS Stonewall National Monument website homepage using this link, you’ll see it: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
Additionally, you can scroll down to the bottom of the homepage where it asks “Was this page helpful?” and click “No”. You can then give them a 500-characters-max feedback response letting them know that we’re glad they returned “bisexual” but they’ve gotta do even better and return “transgender”, too!!! NO LGB WITHOUT THE T!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩷💜💙
Thanks for reporting this crucial story, Erin. I'm going to share it with every gay man and lesbian that I know. Indeed, we all need to make sure that far more gay men and women in the United States realize that Trump's assault on the LGBTQ+ community began with erasing trans people but will end when every gay man and woman in our country is erased.
At this point, the government has probably spent more money poorly editing the Stonewall website than DOGE ever saved. Can Republicans do anything without instantly contradicting themselves?
To say one thing, then do another- and then claim that neither ever happened- is a classic move from the fascist playbook. Getting away with it is an essential step towards absolute power for any authoritarian regime.
It's always amusing to watch inept and incompetent fascists erase and edit us and our history in real time.
But we can only mock them so much.
After all, they're winning and they're going to kill or closet or incarcerate us all by the end of the year.
To all the centrists, Dems, "neutrals", moderates, trans sceptics, and non-ally cis het folk and go- along-get-alongers watching as we are being hunted and destroyed...fuck off and die. I curse you all. When we're all gone, ask "who's next".
The problem with the atempts to erase us is that we still have voices. My children and grandchildren know me, know I'm trans and an activist and our legacy may be erased from government sites but we will not be removed from sight. Please come out stand tall at PRIDE events or if that's too visible (and I understand being out and proud can feel very vulnerable) and you/we/I can recognize the feeling, accept that we are putting our very lives at risk BUT IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN! Stand tall, show up, be a voice or a quiet presence AND show up with fear aside. They want us to be afraid and ashamed but my dears this is really happening and it is a fight for our existence! I'll be at Montana PRIDE again this August 1st in our capital in Helena Montana. This will be decades for our PRIDE in a now Red state but, there are still non-MAGA types here, some of them Republicans, and they still see us as valued citizens. Show up and defy the lie---We exist and we will not be erased by a Sharpie Wielding bigot fool.
I just want to say a big fuck you to the administration!!! Who are they to tell a group of people what their history is?! I know it’s part of the authoritarian playbook, but it just feels weird and obsessive to have someone in your shit so intimately, as to tell you who you are, where you came from and how you came to be where you are…sorry the expletives just feel appropriate :-/)
I did notice that domains like stonewallriot.com, stonewalluprising.com, stonewall.com are all available. We have no control over government sites and the fascist takeover of them…and I believe their are organizations that are archiving/preserving information that is being scrubbed on most of the government websites (I can’t believe that I’m actually writing this and it’s not a fictional account for a novel(. Should those domains be scooped up to relocate the deleted content to them, so that there are searchable and public facing accurate [counter] information available online? I admit I don’t know a lot about this stuff, how to do it, if to do it, or that it isn’t already being done. But those domains are certainly available if that were helpful.
The entirety of the gender critical ideology RE transgender people is based on a delusional faith in one of these three propositions.
A) The gender of a person has no physical, biological existence as a characteristic of human sexual dimorphism.
B) The gender of a person physically exists, but is always magically identical to the apparent sex of the person (which is always strictly binary in result, nevermind the exceptions).
C) That even though gender is physical anatomy developing in utero and may not be identical to the visible sex of a person, it is moral to force someone to ignore their gender and live their life by how their visible sex developed.
Not only are all three completely without evidence for them, all available physical/biological evidence and clinical results are contrary both.
This leads to the belief we do not really think we exist. They think we are mentally ill, willfully perverse, or "lead astray" actually cisgender people -- they think we are frauds.
The Christian Identity/Christian Nationalist movement adds the certainty on their part we are willfully sinful, evil incarnate, demons or demonically influenced -- and -- so are all people who are in any way LGBTQIA+ etc. They are enacting their imam envy.
To them, only the exact poles of the bimodal distribution of human sexual dimorphism are meaningfully real -- all others are to deprecated, diminished, slighted and punished in law and policy, and segregated/exterminated to the degree possible.
So now bisexual people are "on the openly acknowledged target list". People who are homosexual will be next.
The midterms are critical and a majority able to impeach and remove from office Trump! & Co. is literally required for the safety of many tens if not 100's of millions of Americans. To the extent the Dominionists instead get their way, they'll go back to executing LGBTQIA+ people, doing consentless regularization surgery on intersex infants, and even making it a crime for a woman not to wear a skirt /dress, have accounts independently of an associated male, etc.
42 U.S.C. § 1983 & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecutions of the people leading the charge for it must occur.
At this rate, a few months from now the L & G will be removed too, and then any reference to Stonewall entirely. Sucks for them though that the internet exists and no matter what they "erase" it won't ever go away.
Coming soon:
"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a white conservative Christian man was illegal."
"At Stonewall, protestors heaved bricks through the windows to build a monument to Jesus inside a filthy filthy queer bar. Today we remember that moment through thoughts and prayers."
I need to go shower after writing that...
A year from now, that'll be the "new" "reality".
I'm reminded of George Orwell...
The same people that screamed about removing Confederate statues because "You can't change history just because you don't like it", are actively trying to change history, because they don't like it. That tracks.
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 accusation is a confession.
Well, every hypocritical one is.
they’re taking advantage of already existing biphobia in the queer community to attempt to further drive us apart. they’re hoping lesbians and gays will abandon trans people and everyone else. even more proof (though was it really needed?) that exclusion within the queer community is detrimental to our cause
Even though only 20% of Trans people identify as straight, 80% as LGBQ.
My son gifted me a trip to New York City. I remember standing on the sidewalk and getting tears looking at Stonewall. I remember thinking how much our world had changed and how grateful I was. Now I get teary-eyed thinking how bad it is.
The MAGAT ADMINISTRATION is hell bent to erase the fact that their God supposedly created the universe just for them and that their “Satan” is creating demons in the form of the LGBTQIA Community,specially the Transgender community! But it’s not going to stop there because it’s not just us, it’s everyone else who is different from them! All people who aren’t White Anglo-Saxon Evangelical Men are their targets! And their women are nothing more than property!
News Flash MAGAT Assholes, we’re born every single day of the year and WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE BITCHES! 😈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
As if bi people are not already erased enough 🙄🩷💜💙 It seems the administration is trying to reverse history. Bisexual people fought really hard to have the “B” added to the acronym. Even though there still exists a false dichotomy of either being “gay or straight” that erases bi identity and even though bisexuality is often mistakenly scapegoated and thought to somehow be “binary” when it can totally include attraction to people of all genders, regardless of gender, etc. the bi community has persisted and is an integral part of the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Bi folks also make up the largest percentage of the LGBTQ+ community, so erasing them erases over half the community. Looks like Trump is knocking off the letters one by one. He’ll probably get rid of the “L” next and just write “gay” on the webpage. Totally disgraceful. NO LGBT without the B and T!!!!
UPDATE: it appears the monument has returned “bisexual” at least to its homepage! For some reason, Substack won’t let me post a screenshot of the updated webpage in this comment, but if you go to the NPS Stonewall National Monument website homepage using this link, you’ll see it: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
Additionally, you can scroll down to the bottom of the homepage where it asks “Was this page helpful?” and click “No”. You can then give them a 500-characters-max feedback response letting them know that we’re glad they returned “bisexual” but they’ve gotta do even better and return “transgender”, too!!! NO LGB WITHOUT THE T!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩷💜💙
Thanks for reporting this crucial story, Erin. I'm going to share it with every gay man and lesbian that I know. Indeed, we all need to make sure that far more gay men and women in the United States realize that Trump's assault on the LGBTQ+ community began with erasing trans people but will end when every gay man and woman in our country is erased.
At this point, the government has probably spent more money poorly editing the Stonewall website than DOGE ever saved. Can Republicans do anything without instantly contradicting themselves?
To say one thing, then do another- and then claim that neither ever happened- is a classic move from the fascist playbook. Getting away with it is an essential step towards absolute power for any authoritarian regime.
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in their pathetic efforts to erase
It's always amusing to watch inept and incompetent fascists erase and edit us and our history in real time.
But we can only mock them so much.
After all, they're winning and they're going to kill or closet or incarcerate us all by the end of the year.
To all the centrists, Dems, "neutrals", moderates, trans sceptics, and non-ally cis het folk and go- along-get-alongers watching as we are being hunted and destroyed...fuck off and die. I curse you all. When we're all gone, ask "who's next".
The problem with the atempts to erase us is that we still have voices. My children and grandchildren know me, know I'm trans and an activist and our legacy may be erased from government sites but we will not be removed from sight. Please come out stand tall at PRIDE events or if that's too visible (and I understand being out and proud can feel very vulnerable) and you/we/I can recognize the feeling, accept that we are putting our very lives at risk BUT IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN! Stand tall, show up, be a voice or a quiet presence AND show up with fear aside. They want us to be afraid and ashamed but my dears this is really happening and it is a fight for our existence! I'll be at Montana PRIDE again this August 1st in our capital in Helena Montana. This will be decades for our PRIDE in a now Red state but, there are still non-MAGA types here, some of them Republicans, and they still see us as valued citizens. Show up and defy the lie---We exist and we will not be erased by a Sharpie Wielding bigot fool.
I just want to say a big fuck you to the administration!!! Who are they to tell a group of people what their history is?! I know it’s part of the authoritarian playbook, but it just feels weird and obsessive to have someone in your shit so intimately, as to tell you who you are, where you came from and how you came to be where you are…sorry the expletives just feel appropriate :-/)
I did notice that domains like stonewallriot.com, stonewalluprising.com, stonewall.com are all available. We have no control over government sites and the fascist takeover of them…and I believe their are organizations that are archiving/preserving information that is being scrubbed on most of the government websites (I can’t believe that I’m actually writing this and it’s not a fictional account for a novel(. Should those domains be scooped up to relocate the deleted content to them, so that there are searchable and public facing accurate [counter] information available online? I admit I don’t know a lot about this stuff, how to do it, if to do it, or that it isn’t already being done. But those domains are certainly available if that were helpful.
It's probably because half of the people driving this are hooking up with dudes on Grindr but don't wanna admit to themselves that they bi. 🤣
Every RNC convention and CPAC summit since 2023 has crashed Grinder.
What are they afraid of do they think that taking words off of monuments will make trans and bisexual people disappear- IT WILL NOT - WAKE UP MORONS
The entirety of the gender critical ideology RE transgender people is based on a delusional faith in one of these three propositions.
A) The gender of a person has no physical, biological existence as a characteristic of human sexual dimorphism.
B) The gender of a person physically exists, but is always magically identical to the apparent sex of the person (which is always strictly binary in result, nevermind the exceptions).
C) That even though gender is physical anatomy developing in utero and may not be identical to the visible sex of a person, it is moral to force someone to ignore their gender and live their life by how their visible sex developed.
Not only are all three completely without evidence for them, all available physical/biological evidence and clinical results are contrary both.
This leads to the belief we do not really think we exist. They think we are mentally ill, willfully perverse, or "lead astray" actually cisgender people -- they think we are frauds.
The Christian Identity/Christian Nationalist movement adds the certainty on their part we are willfully sinful, evil incarnate, demons or demonically influenced -- and -- so are all people who are in any way LGBTQIA+ etc. They are enacting their imam envy.
To them, only the exact poles of the bimodal distribution of human sexual dimorphism are meaningfully real -- all others are to deprecated, diminished, slighted and punished in law and policy, and segregated/exterminated to the degree possible.
So now bisexual people are "on the openly acknowledged target list". People who are homosexual will be next.
The midterms are critical and a majority able to impeach and remove from office Trump! & Co. is literally required for the safety of many tens if not 100's of millions of Americans. To the extent the Dominionists instead get their way, they'll go back to executing LGBTQIA+ people, doing consentless regularization surgery on intersex infants, and even making it a crime for a woman not to wear a skirt /dress, have accounts independently of an associated male, etc.
42 U.S.C. § 1983 & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecutions of the people leading the charge for it must occur.
Aren't these the same hypocrites who cried crocodile tears when we removed tributes to the racist traitors of the Civil War?