The National Park Service has taken down web pages that discuss transgender activists and LGBTQ history, according to an NPR report.
Web pages about figures including activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – both key figures in the Stonewall Uprising – have reportedly disappeared. That series of violent clashes between police and LGBTQ activists in 1969 followed a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar and is widely considered a flashpoint in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.
According to NPR, the move is part of an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to remove and revamp National Park Service web pages related to LGBTQ history.
But the campaign appears to have been conducted haphazardly, with some links to a “theme study” now broken and others that remain operable. The letters "T" and "Q," standing for "transgender" and "queer," have also been dropped from the LGBTQ acronym on some NPS web pages while remaining on others.
And a park service page that spotlights the achievements and examines the gender identity of civil rights activist and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray no longer works, but a link that shows her family home remains operational.
"These efforts to tamper with our history set an unacceptable precedent," Alan Spears, senior director at the National Parks Conservation Association, said in a statement. "LGBTQ+ history is history, period. It should remain represented at national parks and on the National Park Service website, so that people all over the world can learn about it from the best of the best in the history preservation business.
"As mandated by law, dedicated National Park Service staff have poured more than one hundred years of work into preserving, protecting, and interpreting the stories that built our nation," the statement continued. "By removing these educational and historical materials from public access, the administration is making it harder for National Park Service staff to fulfill their obligation to tell the stories of all Americans and maintain an accurate account of history."
The nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association was founded in 1919 to help protect America’s national parks. The group called on the federal government to immediately restore the shuttered pages.
"I really see this as a symbolic attack," Harvard history professor Michael Bronski told NPR. "The impulse behind it is to symbolically eradicate all of this progress: all of the government recognitions, gay rights, the presence of gay pride, flags on government buildings."
"Since you can't get rid of transpeople or gay people, or bisexual people, or queer people, you can try to get rid of documentation about us," he added. "That means you're trying to rewrite history."
Other pages reportedly shut down by the NPS include one about Philadelphia gay history, one about a now-closed Black LGBTQ bar in Washington, D.C., and one about an 18th century American preacher who was allegedly gender nonconforming.
Newsmax has reached out to the National Park Service for comment.
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