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   From: social-justice@barackobama.com   
      
   President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national   
   monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a   
   sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich   
   Village neighborhood as the birthplace of America’s modern gay   
   liberation movement.   
      
   While most national monuments have highlighted iconic wild   
   landscapes or historic sites from centuries ago, this reflects   
   the country’s diversity of terrain and peoples in a different   
   vein: It would be the first national monument anchored by a dive   
   bar and surrounded by a warren of narrow streets that long has   
   been regarded the historic center of gay cultural life in New   
   York City.   
      
   Federal officials, including Interior Secretary Sally Jewell,   
   National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and Rep.   
   Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), will hold a listening session on May 9   
   to solicit feedback on the proposal. Barring a last-minute   
   complication — city officials are still investigating the   
   history of the land title — Obama is prepared to designate the   
   area part of the National Park Service as soon as next month,   
   which commemorates gay pride.   
      
   What a fucking disgrace.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-poised-to-   
   create-first-monument-to-gay-rights/2016/05/03/0811810e-1154-   
   11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html   
              
      
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