Seventy-two House Democrats are urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to restore references to transgender and queer people expunged in the early days of the Trump administration from a New York national monument.
The letter slams the cuts of trans references at the Stonewall National Monument, where a series of riots and demonstrations in 1969 invigorated the gay rights movement, as a “rewriting of history.”
The letter was led by Reps. Dan Goldman of New York, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano from California and Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chair Ritchie Torres of New York.
“The erasure of transgender and queer Americans from the history of Stonewall — or from any part of our national narrative — is a blatant attack on the integrity of public history,” the Friday letter states. “The history of Stonewall cannot be told without the stories of transgender Americans.”
