Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure

Re:Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans e... by jfengel on Friday February 14, 2025 @05:39PM (#43053868)

This isn't just a "monument" in the sense of a statue. It's a National Monument, like Devils Tower or the Little Bighorn Battlefield.

But yes, they absolutely could decide that LGBT history is not worth celebrating in the same way we've decided that treason and slave-owning isn't worth celebrating.

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Re:Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans e... by sophacles on Friday February 14, 2025 @06:06PM (#43054047)

I thought the argument for statues was "it's history not celebration".

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Re:Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans e... by jfengel on Friday February 14, 2025 @06:41PM (#43054287)

That is the argument made for them, yes.

But it's a little unclear on why they decided that quite so much of our history should be about those particular people. They never seemed to want to supplement other statues to remember more of history.

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