List of LGBT monuments and memorials
Following is a list of LGBT monuments and memorials:
Americas
United States
California
- Mattachine Steps, Los Angeles, California, United States;[1] dedicated on April 7, 2012[2]
- Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle, Crescent Heights Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California. Named for Matthew Shepard, and dedicated in April 1999[3]
- Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco, California
- National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco, California
- Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco, California
Illinois
- Legacy Walk, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Indiana
- AIDS Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana; dedicated on October 29, 2000
Missouri
- Transgender Memorial Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
New York
- Gay Liberation Monument, Manhattan, New York City
- Stonewall National Monument, Manhattan, New York City
- LGBTQ Memorial, Hudson River Park (West Village), New York City; opened July 2018; artist Anthony Goicolea
- Marsha P. Johnson Memorial Fountain, Hudson River Park (West Village), Manhattan, New York City
Ohio
- Natalie Clifford Barney Historic Marker, Dayton, Ohio; dedicated on October 25, 2009[4]
Tennessee
- Penny Campbell Historical Marker, 1600 McEwen Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. Named in honor of LGBT activist, dedicated in December 2017[5]
- The Jungle and Juanita's Historical Marker, Seventh Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. In honor of two bars popular with gay men in the 1960s-1980s, raided by the police in 1963; dedicated in December 2018.[6]
Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House, 5020 Cathedral Avenue, NW. Gay activist Frank Kameny's house, listed on the National Register of Historic Places[7]
Uruguay
- Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual, 2014, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Europe
Germany
- Frankfurter Engel, Frankfurt, Germany, 1994.
- Memorial to gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism, Cologne, Germany, 1995.
- Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
- LGBT Memorial, National Holocaust Centre, Laxton, Nottingamshire, England
- Alan Turing Memorial, Manchester, England
- Alan Turing statue, Bletchley Park, England
France
- Les Marches de la Fierté, Nantes, France
Spain
- Escultura al colectivo homosexual, Sitges
- Monolito en memoria a las personas represaliadas por el franquismo por su opción sexual, Durango
- Monumento en memoria de los gais, lesbianas y personas transexuales represaliadas, Barcelona
- Glorieta de la transexual Sònia, Barcelona
- Placa homenaje a los homosexuales encarcelados en la cárcel de Huelva, Huelva
- Plaza de Pedro Zerolo, Madrid[8]
- Monuments in the Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, Fuerteventura
References
- Chiland, Elijah (June 1, 2016). "How a Silver Lake Staircase Came to be a Monument to LA's Gay Rights Movement". Curbed. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- Ocamb, Karen (January 28, 2017). "Gay author, historian Stuart Timmons dead at 60". Los Angeles Pride. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
- "City renames parkway for Mathew Shepard". The Los Angeles Times: Westside Weekly. April 11, 1999. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- "OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER HONORS DAYTON-BORN WRITER: INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS LESBIAN, NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY". Family Equality Council. October 27, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- Brant, Joseph (December 10, 2017). "Nashville LGBT pioneer Penny Campbell honored with historical marker". Out & About Nashville. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- "More of Nashville's Gay History to Be Recognized". Out & About Nashville. December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- Mark Meinke (July 22, 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Residence" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2011-11-22. (22 pages, with 1 figure and 5 photos)
- "EL monumento al gay desconocido". Shangay (in Spanish). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
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