Dept Of The Interior Tasked With Glorifying LGBTQ History
by Boot Birnbaum • 21 June, 2015 • Culture, Politics • 0 Comments
New to me. Your tax dollars at work…
(NPS) – In 2010, the National Historic Landmarks Program began the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage Initiative by conducting a state-by-state survey of extant sites associated with LGBTQ history. By 2013, the NHL Program began work on a framework to assist preservationists and scholars within the National Park Service, and externally, to identify, document, and nominate sites associated with the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. This initiative was considerably enlarged by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in 2014. A scholars panel was convened to discuss how the project should best proceed and which themes and groups should be highlighted for further study. As of 2015, work proceeds on the identification of possible authors for the essays in the theme study.
Designation of these sites will further enhance Americans’ understanding of LGBTQ history and the ways in which it enhances our understanding of a broad range of topics such as civil rights, the American family, and American communities. New NHLs related to LGBTQ history will join Stonewall in New York City (designated 2000).
Please visit the National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Initiative website for more information.
Keep in mind, these so called contributors to the building of our nation are being glorified for protesting, rioting, lobbying etc. to force their lifestyle choices into mainstream society.
“LGBT history is American history,” said Gill Foundation founder Tim Gill. “The contributions of LGBT people are part of the great American journey toward full equality, freedom and liberty for all our citizens. While we take this important step to recognize the courageous contributions of LGBT Americans, we need to unite together in the days ahead to ensure we leave none of our fellow Americans behind.”
Over the next 12 to 18 months, the National Park Service will work with scholars to explore ways to celebrate and interpret LGBT heritage. The scholars will hold their first meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 10. The public will be invited to take part in this meeting to learn more about the initiative and share comments on its initial phases.
The goals of the heritage initiative include: engaging scholars, preservationists and community members to identify, research, and tell the stories of LGBT associated properties; encouraging national parks, national heritage areas, and other affiliated areas to interpret LGBT stories associated with them; identifying, documenting, and nominating LGBT-associated sites as national historic landmarks; and increasing the number of listings of LGBT-associated properties in the National Register of Historic Places. For more information on the LGBT Heritage Initiative and theme study, click here.
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s inventory of properties deemed to be central to its history and worthy of recognition and preservation. It includes more than 89,000 entries, incorporating more than 1.7 million individual buildings and sites representing local, state or nationally significant people, places and events. Just over 2,500 of these properties are national historic landmarks, designated by the Secretary as representing the highest level of national significance. Relatively few of these properties can be identified as representing the stories associated with African Americans, American Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians, or women. Currently, only four LGBT history-related properties are included in the National Register of Historic Places.
They have done nothing other than advocate for themselves and along the way gained access to our schools, churches, courts etc. and are now a special protected class that thou shalt not offend.
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