These struggles have touched almost every facet of LGBTQ life, and mention of them can be found in every chapter of this theme study. Broadly, civil rights are understood as freedoms of life, safety, thought and conscience, speech, expression, the press, assembly, and movement as well as the right to privacy and protection from discrimination. The stories of LGBTQ America are, in large part, stories of civil rights-rights denied, fought for, fought against, won, lost, won again, and threatened. It is wholly within the mission of the National Park Service to locate, evaluate, recognize, preserve, and interpret nationally significant sites associated with the many threads of the civil rights story. He evolution of our present understanding of civil rights is deeply tied to our collective story and represents the highest aspirations and deepest tragedies that followed the adoption of our national charter. Photo by Francis Stewart, War Relocation Authority, 1943. Gay man Jiro Onuma was among those who were interred here. Aerial view of the Topaz War Relocation Center, Utah.