The Stonewall National Monument, long considered sacred ground in the LGBTQ+ rights movement, is once again under fire, this time for quietly deleting all references to bisexual people from its official National Park Service (NPS) website. The change, made on May 27, comes just months after the removal of the word “transgender” from the same pages, prompting widespread alarm about a systematic erasure of queer history at the federal level.
The removal of bisexual references was first reported by Erin in the Morning. The article raised immediate concern across LGBTQ+ advocacy spaces, with many pointing to this as part of a pattern that includes earlier controversies surrounding the monument’s presentation and programming.
As TransVitae previously reported, the NPS also came under scrutiny this Pride season for its decision to exclude transgender and Progress Pride flags from the monument’s historic 250-flag display. This marked the first time since the flag tradition began that the symbols were omitted, an exclusion that advocates say was not accidental but part of a broader political effort to narrow LGBTQ+ representation.
Now, with bisexual identities also quietly removed from Stonewall’s public narrative, the sense of exclusion is even deeper.
“Bi erasure is real and dangerous,” said Kurt Kelly, co-owner of the Stonewall Inn, in a statement following the website change. “To delete the ‘B’ from LGBTQ+ history at the place where our movement began is a cruel act of invisibility.”
Advocates within the bisexual community echoed this concern, noting that bisexual people already face disproportionately high rates of erasure, invalidation, and health disparities within both queer and mainstream spaces. The Stonewall edit, they say, sends a message that bisexual contributions to LGBTQ+ liberation are less worthy of remembrance.
The monument itself commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising (a spontaneous rebellion against police violence that catalyzed the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement). Many of the key figures in that moment were transgender, gender-nonconforming, and bisexual individuals. Names like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera stand as icons of resistance. Yet recent changes have alarmed those who see the federal site increasingly sanitizing its legacy.
This isn’t the first time we have reported on Trump administration-driven narrative shifts. Earlier this year, we reported a look at the quiet removal of transgender history from the Stonewall Monument’s website, a change that also occurred without public notice or input.
The NPS has not issued a formal explanation for the changes, though advocates believe they may be linked to broader federal efforts under the Trump administration to redefine government references to sex and gender.
For many in the LGBTQ+ community, particularly those who are transgender or bisexual, this moment feels eerily familiar: history being rewritten not by accident, but by design.
The LGBTQ+ rights movement was not born from exclusion, but from resistance. And if Stonewall taught us anything, it’s this: when they try to erase us, we rise louder, prouder, and more unified than ever.
