The National Park Service (NPS) has removed all mentions of transgender people from its website for Dupont Circle, a popular meeting place and neighborhood in Washington D.C. that became a queer hub around 1970. The NPS removed the mentions in to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders prohibiting any federal recognition of trans people in any aspect of civic life.

The NPS webpage used to mention the area’s “LGBTQ” community and history,” but it now only mentions the “LGB” community and history. Its erasure of trans people is similar to the erasure of trans people from the NPS webpage for the Stonewall National Monument, which occurred near mid-February.

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The trans-exclusionary initialism of “LGB” is not widely used by queer people or in queer or mainstream media. Sometimes “LGB” is used by transphobic to encourage a social and ideological split between gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and transgender people. For instance, the British group LGB Alliance sees trans rights as being in conflict with LGB and women’s rights. The group opposes both government recognition of gender identities and youth access to gender-affirming care.

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The direct action activist group has pledged to organize a resistance action to protest the trans erasure from Dupont Circle, writing via Blueksy, “First Stonewall and now Dupont Circle. Calling DC and Baltimore! Time for another action! Join us and fight to Put the T back in Dupon_ Silence is Erasure!”

The erasure and the numerous anti-LGBTQ+ actions taken by the Trump administration could impact the international WorldPride festival which is scheduled to take place in D.C. on June 7. WorldPride organizers have not yet commented on the erasure, but a major federal contractor pulled out of the event earlier this month in fear of possibly violating Trump’s executive order banning all diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and accessibility efforts.

Ryan Bos, the organizer of WorldPride in Washington and leader of the local Capital Pride Alliance, said, “It’s disheartening, at a time when it feels like we’re getting hit from all sides, that the things that we were able to rely on for years are endangered, to see businesses cower to this.”

Trump also installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. after being elected by a handpicked board of directors. Soon after, a concert associated with WorldPride, featuring the National Symphony Orchestra and the Gay Men’s Chorus, was canceled by Ric Grennel, a gay alum from Trump’s first administration and the center’s newly-installed executive director.

First Stonewall and now Dupont Circle. Calling DC and Baltimore! Time for another action! Join us and fight to Put the T back in Dupon_ Silence is Erasure! Come over to The Transexual Menace Discord. We are organizing the resistance. discord.gg/Ey4rsMSYCu

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— The Transexual Menace (@transexualmenace.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Despite this, Dupont Circle remains as the heart of the city’s queer identity. The area recently saw the opening of an LGBTQ-friendly senior living community in luxury apartments.

Numerous LGBTQ+ bars, like The Fireplace and JR’s Bar & Grill, are located near the circle as is the headquarters for the Human Rights Campaign, the National LGBTQ Task Force, PFLAG and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center is barely a mile away from the landmark.

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