Last night, in very windy conditions Mary Lambert, #FindYourPark Ambassador, performed a pop-up concert in front of the first LGBTQ national park site, Stonewall National Monument. Lambert performed a three-song set on a makeshift stage that was set up outside the historic gay site and urged the audience to sing along with her. Singing about…
Ahead of its centennial in 2016 the National Park Service is finding new ways to connect with the LGBT community. Set up in 1916, the National Park Service is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior and is led by a director nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The…
Last week, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the National Park Foundation, in partnership with the Gill Foundation, announced a new LGBT theme study — standing outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The study will help identify places and events associated with the story of LGBT Americans for inclusion in the parks…
