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News (USA)
National Park Service will open LGBTQ history visitors center next to Stonewall Inn
It will be the first LGBTQ visitor center within the National Park Service’s network of public parks and monuments. The funders are a who’s-who of queer celebs and LGBTQ-friendly corporations.
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News (USA)
A permanent Pride flag will be installed on the Stonewall National Monument
Under the Trump administration, activists weren’t able to raise a flag pole or Pride flag on the federally-operated land despite repeated requests.
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News (USA)
Trans & queer New Yorkers faced brutal use of force by police near Stonewall. The mayor “doesn’t know anything.”
A regularly held, trans-led rally ended with police sieging the crowd near the LGBTQ rights landmark. NYC’s “second-in-command” official was shoved – but Bill de Blasio shrugs it off.
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Politics
Meet John Blair, the gay Democrat running for Congress in New Mexico
“We are frankly on the verge of an infrastructure crisis, and I think because of the experience I have had, I am best positioned to represent this district,” Blair says.
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LGBTQ Pride
Trump administration gives away public land so they won’t have to fly a rainbow flag for LGBTQ pride
The Stonewall Inn is a national monument to LGBTQ rights, but the administration didn’t want to fly the pride flag. So they gave the flagpole outside it to New York City.
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News (USA)
4 positive political moments for the LGBTQ community that somehow got past Trump
While the LGBTQ community is suffering under the Trump administration, some good moves were made – but often came with a catch.
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News (USA)
Interior Secretary wouldn’t fly pride flag over Stonewall. He flies his own flag instead.
Best known for his extravagance and crazy antics, he also hands out taxpayer funded coins with his own name on them to visitors.
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News (USA)
White House won’t let a pride flag fly on federal land for National Coming Out Day
The National Park service was a sponsor the event being held at Stonewall, but they have now abruptly withdrawn from today’s ceremony.
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News (USA)
Google grants $1 million to preserve Stonewall oral history
Sen. Chuck Schumer said the grant sends a clear message to President Trump that Stonewall’s national monument designation is here to stay.
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News (USA)
Could Trump pull national monument designation from Stonewall?
A White House official says a new executive order is coming that could spell trouble for recently named national monuments.