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DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan E. Springate.

The National Park Service (NPS) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage Initiative was established to address the under-representation of LGBTQ sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and as National Historic Landmarks (NHL), as well as to encourage interpretation of LGBTQ history at sites managed by the NPS. An archaeological context was included to facilitate the consideration of properties’ archaeological significance. In practice, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood. Steph Wong.

The oldest modern “out” public LGBTQ+ statues, entitled Gay Liberation, were erected in 1984 on Stanford University’s campus, in memory of the 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City. The oldest “out” LGBTQ+ public monument is the Homomonument constructed in 1987 in Amsterdam. Pride in LGBTQ+ history is reclaimed by identifying older unlabeled LGBTQ+ statues that were “closeted” when being gay was illegal. Four major types of subsequently-erected ”out” memorials are discussed: statues of famous...