Historic Preservation and LGBT History
Last month, the National Park Service announced (here) a “theme study” focused on sites related to LGBT history. The study’s aims (described here) are:
- engaging scholars, preservationists and community members to identify, research, and tell the stories of LGBT associated properties;
- encouraging national parks, national heritage areas, and other affiliated areas to interpret LGBT stories associated with them;
- identifying, documenting, and nominating LGBT-associated sites as national historic landmarks;
- increasing the number of listings of LGBT-associated properties in the National Register of Historic Places.
The public can nominate places for inclusion at the website parkplanning.nps.gov/lgbtlaunch or via email:lgbthistory@nps.gov
-Bridget Crawford