The website deleted all mentions of "transgender" and "queer" in its history of the Stonewall riots, and only referred to the riots' impact on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

The Stonewall Inn, a bar on Christopher Street, has been seen as a cradle of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement since a police raid in June 1969 set off three days of protests and riots on the ...

What is Stonewall? The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, has been cited as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.The bar, opened in 1967 ...

The Stonewall Inn at the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village is prized as an origin of the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement and is internationally revered as a symbol of gay ...

While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay ...

The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969, is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement," the website now says. MORE: LGBT activists remember Stonewall riots ...

Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender women who are widely seen as mothers of the movement and as pivotal figures in the Stonewall uprising. The scrubbing of the monument website left him aghast.

Johnson and Sylvia Rivera of the movement sparked at Stonewall to expand LGBTQ rights. "The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence.

While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay, lesbian ...