The monument commemorates the historic New York City gay bar where LGBTQ activists — including transgender trailblazers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera — waged an uprising that was a turning point for the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

The National Park Service has removed transgender references from its website commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, erasing transgender activists such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were central to the movement for LGBTQ+ rights.

Nearly all mentions of trans people have been scrubbed clean off a website for the Stonewall National Monument. The memorial in New York honours the 1969 riot that ignited the US LGBTQ+ rights movement.