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
- The Council of Paris named, unanimously, squares, garden and streets after LGBT heroes: place Harvey-Milk, rue Pierre-Seel, place Ovida-Delect, Federico García Lorca Garden (Paris), jardin Marie Thérèse-Auffray, rue Eva-Kotchever, Mark Ashton Garden, promenade Coccinelle, or events such as Stonewall Riots Square.[8]
- A commemorative plaque, situated rue Montorgueil in Paris, pays tribute to the couple Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir. The two men were the last persons executed in France as punishment for homosexuality in 1750.[9]
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[10]
- 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)
- https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/france-paris-lgbtq-street-names-scli-intl/index.html
- https://www.humanite.fr/tribunes/affaire-diot-lenoir-briser-le-silence-250-ans-plus-556623
- "EL monumento al gay desconocido". Shangay (in Spanish). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
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