The monument in Greenwich Village is based in a tiny park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, a bar that became ground zero for the gay rights movement.
signed on his first day in office calling for the federal government to define sex as only male or female.“This is just cruel and petty,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, posted on X. “Transgender people play a critical role in the fight for LGBTQ + rights — and New York will never allow their contributions to be erased.”Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter.
Representatives of the present-day Stonewall Inn, which is part of the national monument, and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, a nonprofit organization associated with the historic bar, expressed anger and outrage over the changes. Angelica Christina, who is board director of the initiative and a transgender woman, said the changes to the website are not surprising given “the constant executive orders the Trump administration has been leveling against the trans community.”
On Thursday, it said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual person was illegal.”
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