US aims to identify, promote historic LGBT sites

Associated Press ^ | May 28, 2014 2:35 PM EDT | Lisa Leff

[Olog-hai]

The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is convening a panel of 18 scholars next month that will be charged with exploring the LGBT movement’s story in areas such as law, religion, media, civil rights and the arts. The committee will identify relevant sites and its work will be used to evaluate them for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, designation as National Historic Landmarks, or consideration as national monuments, Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said. …

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[a fool in paradise]

Are they going to preserve the room where Jim Jones and Harvey Milk had their gay trysts?

[Bogey78O]

Full speed ahead.

Ironically at ramming speed.

[GladesGuru]

Will the folks who created “Big Park” consider doing a “Butt Park” video?

It would give “Armed & Rangerous” a hole new meaning. With a talented script writer, Ranger Randy could come into his own.

Laughter can destroy, and the idea of “Queer Parks” deserves such comedic/satiric efforts.

[a fool in paradise]

It wasn’t a licensed bar. It was a mob run speakeasy that was closed by law enforcement. And the faggots threw a hissyfit that lasted for days.

[Olog-hai]

You mean like Newsweak did?

[paterfamilias]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbt-sx5MDc&feature=kp

[areukiddingme1]

Or, this factory....

[reagandemocrat]

Folsom Street Fair and Gaitan Dugas.

[areukiddingme1]

Talk about a sausage fest...where are the women — eeekkkkkk.

[dfwgator]

The Poop Deck at the Marlin Beach Hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach.

[dfwgator]

John Wayne Gacy’s house.

[From The Deer Stand]

Is the National Park Service going to identify historic heterosexual sites? Why do I think not?

[GeronL]

lol

[TurboZamboni]

Toe Tapper bathroom stall at MSP International Airport?

[dfwgator]

"You nasty, bad, naughty boy."

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Get used to restroom stalls with bronze markers on the door.

[ThomasMore]

Maybe they should start with Provincetown.

http://ptown.org/

[turducken]

In what way is America any better than Sodom and Gomorrah these days?