List of LGBTQ monuments and memorials
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Following is a list of LGBT monuments and memorials:
Americas
Brazil
- My Heart Beats Like Yours, Sculpture in Praça da República, 2018, São Paulo
Chile
- Memorial por la diversidad de Chile, in Santiago de Chile, 2014.
United States
California
- Mattachine Steps, Los Angeles, United States;[1] dedicated on April 7, 2012[2]
- Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle, Crescent Heights Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood; named for Matthew Shepard, and dedicated in April 1999[3]
- Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco
- National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco
- Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco
Illinois
- Legacy Walk, Chicago
Missouri
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; dedicated on October 25, 2009[4]
Tennessee
- Penny Campbell Historical Marker, 1600 McEwen Avenue, Nashville; named in honor of LGBT activist, dedicated in December 2017[5]
- The Jungle and Juanita's Historical Marker, Seventh Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville; in honor of two bars popular with gay men in the 1960s-1980s, raided by the police in 1963; dedicated in December 2018[6]
Texas
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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
Europe
Germany
- Frankfurter Engel, Frankfurt, 1994
- Memorial to gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism, Cologne, 1995
- Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism, Berlin, 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[8]
- 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[9]
- 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[10]
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[11]
- Monuments in the Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, Fuerteventura
Australia
Asia
Israel
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)
- ^ "L'escalier arc-en-ciel « Les marches de la fierté » vandalisé, la mairie de Nantes porte plainte". NEON (in French). 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ^ Emily Dixon. "Paris names four squares and streets for LGBTQ icons". CNN.
- ^ "Affaire Diot-Lenoir : briser le silence, 250 ans plus tard". L'Humanité. January 10, 2014.
- ^ "EL monumento al gay desconocido". Shangay (in Spanish). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2019.