Trump administration closes iconic Dupont Circle Park during WorldPride against city’s objections
Organizers told The Advocate they were “frustrated” with the sudden and unannounced determination to barricade the area.
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June 6, 2025
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Organizers told The Advocate they were “frustrated” with the sudden and unannounced determination to barricade the area.
The federal agency previously said it would close off the iconic LGBTQ+ area because of "vandalism" concerns.
"Let this flag fly higher than hate," says organizer Pattie Gonia.
Over 1,000 off-duty, fired, and retired National Park Service employees launched a new initiative to preserve transgender people in history.
LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now.
Opinion: "When we present young people with a version of history from which they are completely absent, they have trouble envisioning a positive future for themselves," writes Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings.
An LGBTQ+ nonprofit has made a crossword puzzle of the words banned by Donald Trump.
The administration has banned or discouraged the use of hundreds of terms, including "advocate," "LGBT," and "trans."
NPS removed the pages shortly after scrubbing transgender people from other government websites.
“This is not just an erasure of words — it is an erasure of history," Johnson's cousin says of the removal of "transgender" and "queer" from the website for the Stonewall National Monument.
The Stonewall Inn held a rally Friday to protest the Trump administration's erasure of transgender people from the historic landmark's website.
The monument, in Greenwich Village, represents a milestone in the fight for gay rights in the U.S.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland reversed an earlier policy forbidding employees from participating in uniform, which caused uproar.
Recently, the National Park Service issued a memo barring employees from attending Pride parades in uniform. Official participation appears uncertain, and many LGBQT+ Rangers are feeling defeated.
Townsend was active in the Mattachine Society, produced avant-garde plays, and embraced the post-Stonewall LGBTQ+ movement.