[jfengel]

I'm surprised that they bothered to replace the sign at all. I'd expect them to just remove it, the way they've eliminated all mention of homosexuality in other parts of the government.

I suspect that the monument itself will be disestablished, as soon as they get around to it.

[sophacles]

They would never remove a monument right? Or does it have to be a statue to count?

[jfengel]

This isn't just a "monument" in the sense of a statue. It's a National Monument, like Devils Tower or the Little Bighorn Battlefield.

But yes, they absolutely could decide that LGBT history is not worth celebrating in the same way we've decided that treason and slave-owning isn't worth celebrating.

[sophacles]

I thought the argument for statues was "it's history not celebration".

[jfengel]

That is the argument made for them, yes.

But it's a little unclear on why they decided that quite so much of our history should be about those particular people. They never seemed to want to supplement other statues to remember more of history.