Fed. Stonewall pages & false news about them (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 week ago by memfree@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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Yesterday Erin in the Morning reported that the term "bisexual" was getting removed from the national park services pages. It was. They had proof -- but now, they've reverted that change so it is NOT TRUE now. Perhaps it will be again, but PLEASE check before saying it is gone.

Old news: they removed TQ+ from LGBTQ+ -- that happened in February 2025.
As of today, they still have the 'B'. See for yourself:
https://www.nps.gov/ston/
https://www.nps.gov/ston/learn/education/new-index.htm

The source wrote the piece well and linked to an archive so people can see the history. They have a snapshot from July 10th with 'bisexual' erased, but as of July 11th, it is back. As I write, the text they cite for the MAIN page (not History) reads:

Before the 1960s, almost everything about living authentically as a lesbian, a bisexual person or a gay man was illegal.

The History page (current | Jun 4 archive } April 19 archive uses LGB) is obliquely worded and has been for months, saying:

Through the 1960s almost everything about living openly as a member of the Stonewall comunity was a violation of law

It still omits transgendered as it has since the February 'purge'.

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[-] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

I don't know. A lot of people still don't think bisexual people exist, even in the gay/lesbian community. It's still controversial for conservatives, just not a target of the current administration as it would cover too many people and having "the enemy" be too large of a group means more likelihood of successful revolt or at least enough people getting wise to the fact that it's just a means of controlling them.