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 worldAlex Migdal, "This cherry tree site is the first-known AIDS memorial in Vancouver". CBC News British Columbia, July 30, 2019. Jim Deva Plaza, Vancouver; launched in 2016Robin Perelle, "A year in review 2016: New plaza and memorial help reclaim Vancouver’s gay village". Xtra!, December 16, 2016. LGBTQ2+ National Monument, Ottawa; in development and planned for unveiling in 2025 Parc de l'Espoir, Montreal; commemorates community members who have died of HIV/AIDSYves Lafontaine, "Le nouveau parc de l’Espoir : plus vaste, plus vert et plus accessible". Fugues, August 17, 2021. Statue of Alexander Wood, Toronto; dedicated May 28, 2005, destroyed April 4, 2022 Trans Memorial, Toronto, installed July 14, 2014 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; dedicated on April 7, 2012 Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle, Crescent Heights Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood; named for Matthew Shepard, and dedicated in April 1999 National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco Pink Triangle Park, San Francisco
Florida Pulse Memorial and Museum, Orlando Pulse memorial mural at University of Central Florida, OrlandoWebsite Restored, relocated Pulse mural unveiled at UCF's Student Union https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/news/watch-restored-relocated-pulse-mural-unveiled-at-ucfs-student-union/article_4c5bc92d-0c8b-452d-9a44-194a2e7d6197.html Nicholson Student Media access-date=2026-05-01 Key West AIDS Memorial, Key West
Illinois AIDS Garden, Chicago Legacy Walk, Chicago LGBT veterans monument (Chicago) LGBT veterans monument (Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery)
Minnesota East-Central Minnesota Pride historic marker recognizing the first rural LGBTQ Pride in Pine City, Minnesotahttps://www.advocate.com/politics/states/minnesota-rural-pride-marker.
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 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 Gertrude Stein Monument, Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City Stonewall National Monument, Manhattan, New York City
Ohio Natalie Clifford Barney Historic Marker, Dayton; dedicated on October 25, 2009
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 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
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 (22 pages, with 1 figure and 5 photos)
Puerto Rico
Victims of the Pulse Night Club Shooting Memorial, 2016, Parque del Tercer Milenio, San Juan Monument to Dr. Rosalina "Talín" Ramos and the LGBTQ+ Community, 2021, Plaza Mirador in Poblado Boquerón, Cabo Rojo
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 LGBT Memorial, National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Laxton, Nottinghamshire, England LGBT+ Veterans Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, 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
Les Marches de la Fierté, Nantes 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 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
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 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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