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List of LGBT monuments and memorials

List of LGBT monuments and memorials

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Following is a list of LGBT monuments and memorials:

Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco

Americas

Brazil

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

Canada

Chile

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

United States

California

Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco

Florida

Illinois

Missouri

New York

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

  • John 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
  • Giovinni's Room, 345 S. 12th Street, Philadelphia
  • Gloria Casarez Marker, Philadelphia
  • Reminder Day Marker, Philadelphia
  • Richard 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, 2014

Washington, D.C.

Puerto Rico

Uruguay

Europe

Belgium

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

Germany

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

France

French official Memorial to Gilbert Baker, Place des Emeutes de Stonewall. Paris, Le Marais, France.

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

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