List of LGBTQ monuments and memorials

Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco

Following is a list of LGBTQ 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

Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco

• 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, 2014

• 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

• AIDS Memorial Sculpture, Kemptown, Brighton ^[18]
• 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
• A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, London, England

France

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

• Les Marches de la Fierté, Nantes ^[19]
• 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 ^[20]
• 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 ^[21]

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 ^[22]
• Monuments in the Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, Fuerteventura

Australia

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial

• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial

Asia

Israel

• Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial

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