Sylvia Rivera leads an ACT-UP march past New York’s Union Square Park in June 1994.
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Just weeks after references to transgender people vanished from the website for the Stonewall National Monument, National Park Service web pages once dedicated to figures such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera have now disappeared.
Both were transgender activists and key figures in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. That protest against police during a raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar became a flashpoint in the struggle for LGBTQ civil rights (A photograph of Johnson remains on the NPS site, but with no mention of her role.)
This is part of an ongoing move by the federal government to remove and alter National Park Service webpages related to LGBTQ history.
