Now the Stonewall website has removed all reference to Transgender, and is removing Queer. I don’t know what the National Park Service is doing to the physical memorial, but I can only suppose that it will follow suit, or already has.
The first thing that occurred to me is that some reputable LGBTQ organization should raise funds to buy it from the feds, and restore it to what it should be. I’ll subscribe right now.
Ah so that explains this. I just walked past the Stonewall memorial earlier today and noticed there were all kinds of handwritten posters and signs taped up about trans rights and not erasing trans history and big trans flags flying.
I have to admit my first thought was what were they doing to the Stonewall Jackson Memorial that had to do with transgender confederates. I then realized that the confederate memorials were going to be doing quite well under the new administration, too well. 
Private ownership of the memorial is only a temporary solution. Our wise leader will get rid of all the woke leftists in government and industry. Any medical professional found guilty of helping a patient ‘transition’ will lose their license and spend time in prison. Rather than having whole sick communities and industries feed their delusions, these people will be given actual therapy until they realize that they are not trans.
Heil Trump!
Temporary is better than nothing. Preserving history is worth doing, and it doesn’t have to be done by people in government (the fewer of those the better is my main theme here) or in industry. Grass-roots support might be a lot harder to stamp out.
Some idiot supposed trans supporter quoted in the article says (paraphrased) “You can’t change history by removing a couple of letters from a memorial.” Of course you can, that’s how you change history, by making sure everyone forgets what really happened. As in, the victors write history and everyone else gets forgotten.
Maybe we can’t do everything, but we should do what we can.
That depends on how much time, effort and money are put into the solution and just how temporary it is.
History is what ever Big Brother says it is. There are no trans people. There have never been any trans people.
Don’t you love Big Brother?
Now, you get it.
Clearly, we disagree on exactly how bad things will get and for how long. I say things will get very bad and every day it seems more likely we are looking at the end of American democracy.
And how important the issue is. I think this is where we really differ.
This comes across as condescending. Of course I get it. It is exactly the reason why this is a good place to draw a line and fight, not just for the short term, but for our posterity, to preserve the truth of our history.
I don’t think we differ on the importance of this issue. I think where we differ is that I see the end of American democracy and this country becoming a fascist state. People could spend time and money to buy the Stonewall monument. At the rate things are going, it will not be standing for very long regardless of who owns it. LGBTQ+ rights are already under attack and will be gone shortly. The rights of various other groups will follow.
All resources shoudl be used to preserve democracy- other wise they are wasted.
So you’ve surrendered, then. Good to know. Will you be actively assisting your masters in rounding up the untermensch, or will you just be providing them the names and home addresses of all your non-gender-conforming “friends”?
It is now my turn to be offended. I will not collaborate. I will not surrender.
I repeat that all resources must be directed at preventing the end of American democracy. If we do not stop the government from becoming entirely and openly fascist, the Stonewall monument will be entirely destroyed regardless of who owns it. LGBTQ+ people will have no rights. Brown people will be, at best, second class citizens.
History is written by the victors. And here I wasted all those years in college reading history written by the historians.
Then stop talking like all hope is already lost.
My small hope for this thread was to draw attention to a general issue, that is, who controls the messages of such things as memorials, especially those that focus on the history (and progress) of oppressed minorities, and that it is not wise to trust the control of such memorials to the very organizations that participated in the oppressions in the first place.
It is easy to accept federal (or state or local government) dollars thrown into the pot at a time when it is politically expedient for those in power to do so, but if we did not already know it, we now have been shown that we cannot depend on the truth being maintained with any integrity by those institutions.
I understand the outrage. Unfortunately, you can’t rely on the hope that a philanthropist or non-profit will step forward to buy, and forever maintain, a historic site.
Please consider:
Besides all the obvious reasons, this is especially absurd because the Stonewall riots were led, in part, by transgender people.
If this is directed at me, I am not expressing outrage, which I find to be a pointless exercise. I am pointing out a strategy error that has now turned around and bitten us in the ass.
As for your points for us to consider, non-profits do this kind of thing all the time. They clearly need to be set up so as not to depend on government funds. I’m not sure who is the “we” you are referring to who have “lost” historic sites. Some historic sites supported by government funds have certainly been lost in recent years, and rightly so, as public opinion has changed against Confederate memorials. This illustrates the issue with government funding, which is now revealed to have at least as many vagaries as the private sector.
As for not being able to rely on hope, I choose not to be hopeless.
I remember this one well from my years in San Diego:
The cross sits atop a ‘mountain’ that’s sort of a local mecca for bicyclists. There are two or three ways up to the top, from sea level. They’re all a helluva’ grind and they’re all beautiful, as are the panoramic views along the way and at the top.
The cross didn’t bother me. I understood both sides of the argument.
The Trump/Stonewall move? It’s beneath contempt and totally on-brand for the demagogue constantly pandering to bigots.