List of LGBT monuments and memorials explained

Following is a list of LGBT monuments and memorials:

Americas

Brazil

• My Heart Beats Like Yours, Sculpture in Praça da República, 2018, São Paulo

Canada

• Cherry Trees at Devonian Harbour Park, Vancouver; planted in 1985 and solemnized in 2019 with a plaque acknowledging them as one of the earliest AIDS memorials in the world^[1]
• Jim Deva Plaza, Vancouver; launched in 2016^[2]
• LGBTQ2+ National Monument, Ottawa; in development and planned for unveiling in 2025^[3]
• Parc de l'Espoir, Montreal; commemorates community members who have died of HIV/AIDS^[4]
• Statue of Alexander Wood, Toronto; dedicated May 28, 2005, destroyed April 4, 2022^[5]
• Toronto AIDS Memorial, Toronto; launched in 1993
• Vancouver AIDS Memorial, Vancouver; launched in 2004

Chile

• Memorial por la Diversidad de Chile, in Santiago de Chile, 2014.

United States

California

• California LGBTQ Veterans Memorial, Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City
• Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco
• Mattachine Steps, Los Angeles, United States;^[6] dedicated on April 7, 2012^[7]
• Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle, Crescent Heights Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood; named for Matthew Shepard, and dedicated in April 1999^[8]
• National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco
• Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco

Florida

• Pulse Memorial and Museum, Orlando

Illinois

• AIDS Garden, Chicago
• Legacy Walk, Chicago
• LGBT veterans monument (Chicago)
• LGBT veterans monument (Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery)^[9]

Missouri

• Transgender Memorial Garden, St. Louis

New York

• Gay Liberation Monument, Manhattan, New York City
• LGBTQ Memorial, Hudson River Park (West Village), New York City; opened July 2018; artist Anthony Goicolea^{[10] [11]}
• A Love Letter to Marsha, Manhattan, New York City
• Marsha P. Johnson Memorial Fountain, Hudson River Park (West Village), Manhattan, New York City
• New York City AIDS Memorial, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City
• Stonewall National Monument, Manhattan, New York City

Ohio

• Natalie Clifford Barney Historic Marker, Dayton; dedicated on October 25, 2009^[12]

Oregon

• Never Look Away, Portland

Pennsylvania

• John E. Fryer Marker, 13th & Locust Streets Philadelphia
• The Dewey's Sit-In Historic Marker, 17th and St. James streets, Philadelphia
• Edith Windsor Historical Marker, 13th & Locust Streets, Philadelphia
• Giovanni's Room, 345 S. 12th Street, Philadelphia
• Gloria Casarez Marker, Philadelphia
• Reminder Day Marker, Philadelphia
• Richard L. Schlegel Marker, Harrisburg
• Shapp Administration LGBT Initiatives, Harrisburg

Tennessee

• Penny Campbell Historical Marker, 1600 McEwen Avenue, Nashville; named in honor of LGBT activist, dedicated in December 2017^[13]
• 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^[14]

Texas

• Pink Dolphin Monument, Galveston Island

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^[15]

Puerto Rico

• LGBT monument, San Juan^{[16] [17]}

Uruguay

• Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual, 2014, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo

Europe

Belgium

• My gay mythology - a monument to everyone, Brussels, 2007
• Regenboogmonument, Antwerp, 2015

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

• Homomonument

United Kingdom

• LGBT Memorial, National Holocaust Centre, Laxton, Nottingamshire, England
• Alan Turing Memorial, Manchester, England
• Statue of Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, England
• Statue of Alan Turing, University of Surrey, England

France

• Les Marches de la Fierté, Nantes^[18]
• 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^[19]
• 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^[20]

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^[21]
• Monuments in the Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, Fuerteventura

Australia

• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial

Asia

Israel

• Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial

Notes and References

1. Alex Migdal, "This cherry tree site is the first-known AIDS memorial in Vancouver". CBC News British Columbia, July 30, 2019.
2. Robin Perelle, "A year in review 2016: New plaza and memorial help reclaim Vancouver’s gay village". Xtra!, December 16, 2016.
3. News: LGBTQ2+ memorial to be built near Library and Archives Canada . Ottawa Citizen. Blair Crawford. January 23, 2020. en.
4. Yves Lafontaine, "Le nouveau parc de l’Espoir : plus vaste, plus vert et plus accessible". Fugues, August 17, 2021.
5. News: Shaun Proulx. Tall, bronzed man moves to gay village . April 6, 2022 . . May 21, 2005 . April 6, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220406003932/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tall-bronzed-man-moves-to-gay-village/article981131/ . live .
6. News: Chiland. Elijah. How a Silver Lake Staircase Came to be a Monument to LA's Gay Rights Movement. December 28, 2017. Curbed. June 1, 2016.
7. News: Ocamb. Karen. Gay author, historian Stuart Timmons dead at 60. January 29, 2017. Los Angeles Pride. January 28, 2017.
8. News: City renames parkway for Mathew Shepard. December 29, 2017. The Los Angeles Times: Westside Weekly. April 11, 1999. 3. Newspapers.com. registration .
9. Web site: Monument to LGBT veterans dedicated in Elwood . 2024-01-14 . ABC7 Chicago . en.
10. Web site: Smith . Ron . Blau . Reuven . 2018-06-24 . LGBT memorial honoring Orlando's Pulse shooting victims unveiled in Hudson River Park . 2024-01-14 . New York Daily News . en-US.
11. Web site: 2018-06-24 . LGBT Memorial Makes Its Debut Along Hudson River . 2024-01-14 . CBS New York . en-US.
12. Web site: OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER HONORS DAYTON-BORN WRITER: INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS LESBIAN, NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY. Family Equality Council. December 28, 2017. October 27, 2009.
13. News: Brant. Joseph. Nashville LGBT pioneer Penny Campbell honored with historical marker. December 28, 2017. Out & About Nashville. December 10, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180308103256/https://www.outandaboutnashville.com/story/nashville-lgbt-pioneer-penny-campbell#.WkUlcVSFj-Z. March 8, 2018. dead.
14. News: More of Nashville's Gay History to Be Recognized . December 21, 2018 . Out & About Nashville . December 3, 2018.
15. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Residence . July 22, 2006 . Mark Meinke . . 2011-11-22. (22 pages, with 1 figure and 5 photos)
16. Web site: 2016-07-06 . Puerto Rico dedicates first LGBT monument . 2024-01-14 . www.washingtonblade.com . en-US.
17. Web site: Brydum . Sunnivie . 2016-07-05 . Puerto Rico's First LGBT Monument Honors Orlando Victims . 2024-01-14 . www.advocate.com . en.
18. Web site: 2018-06-14. L'escalier arc-en-ciel " Les marches de la fierté " vandalisé, la mairie de Nantes porte plainte. 2020-12-27. NEON. fr-FR.
19. Web site: Paris names four squares and streets for LGBTQ icons. Emily Dixon. CNN. 25 June 2019 .
20. Web site: Affaire Diot-Lenoir : briser le silence, 250 ans plus tard. January 10, 2014. L'Humanité.
21. Web site: EL monumento al gay desconocido. 11 October 2019. 30 July 2015. Shangay. es.