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Several months after the National Park Service removed several references to transgender people from its website for the Stonewall National Monument, mentions of bisexuality were next on the chopping block.
Journalist Erin Reed reported earlier this week that multiple references to bisexuality had been deleted from the home page and “history and culture” section for the monument, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City that marked a pivotal point in the movement for LGBTQ rights.
Following Reed’s reporting on the removal, one reference to bisexuality had been added back to the site, though others remained absent as of Saturday morning.
In February, after President Donald Trump took office and vowed to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the park service deleted several instances of the words “transgender” and queer” from the Stonewall site. It also cut the letters T and Q from the LGBTQ acronym, changing terms like “LGBTQ civil rights” to “LGB rights.”
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Now, references to bisexuality have also been quietly removed. On May 27, the Stonewall Monument homepage referenced “living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person.” Later that day, it was changed to “living authentically as a gay or lesbian person.”
Similarly, the site’s “history and culture” section included the phrases “living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person,” “people who would identify today as LGB” and “LGB civil rights.”
Those were replaced, respectively, with “gay and lesbian civil rights,” “people who would identify today as a member of the community,” and “living openly as a member of the Stonewall comunity [sic].”
As of Saturday, “bisexual” was back on the monument’s homepage, but the changes on the “history and culture” page remained. The National Park Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost.
People sounded off on the changes on social media.
the trump administration officially erased both transgender and bisexual people from the stonewall national monument
now it’s only “gay and lesbians”
despite many telling us “bisexuals are the most accepted/privileged” we bis knew that after erasing the T, the B would be next … pic.twitter.com/FtslrWPfka
the stonewall monument website is being forced to remove mentions of bisexuality on their website!! this comes after they were forced to remove any mentions of trans people and use “LGB”. this is a direct threat on the entire community. NONE OF US ARE SAFE UNTIL WE ALL ARE.
— kaz y/dsa (@lqvekanthony) July 11, 2025absolutely disgusting. bisexual and trans people have always existed and always will exist. there's NO stonewall without the b and t. https://t.co/wMjxOSHWeV
— pink pony lesbian 11 (@bratsupernova) July 11, 2025THEY ARE ERASING BISEXUALS??? FROM THE ACRONYM??? WHAT DID WE EVEN DO
— 𝓖igi ⚤ (@bisexualclairo) July 11, 202520 Years Of Free Journalism
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