The Washington Blade last week uncovered that the National Park Service—at the behest of the Trump administration — was withholding $1.25 million of federal funding to recognize “Historic Underrepresented Communities.” This week, the administration released the funding for all grant recipients except those undertaking LGBTQ-specific projects.

The agency decided not to honor the three LGBTQ-specific grants already announced as recipients, but rather to give the funds to other non-LGBTQ-related project work, according to multiple sources.

The funding had to be spent by the end of the fiscal year in order to comply with federal regulations on congressionally appropriated spending, which ended on Sept. 30.

All three LGBTQ organizations—the D.C. Preservation League (supposed to be awarded $7

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