US EditionLeaders, protesters raise Pride flag at Stonewall after removal
More than 2,000 protesters and New York officials defied federal policy to restore the Pride flag, highlighting ongoing political disputes over LGBTQ+ visibility and rights.
- New York City officials and activists re-raised the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 12 after the NPS removed it from the nautical flagpole, defying a Trump administration edict.
- Jan. 21 Department of the Interior guidance restricted non-agency flags in national parks, while activists say the Trump administration limited transgender recognition and gender-affirming care in the past year.
- Approximately 1,000 spectators watched as an attendee attempted to pull down the U.S. flag amid chants, and activists said `That flagpole was put up there for the sole purpose of displaying the rainbow flag`.
- The White House deferred comment, while activists and Stonewall veterans said the removal is an assault on transgender rights, warning it erases trans history.
- Stonewall's 2016 designation as a national monument underscores its 7.7-acre symbolic importance, encompassing the privately owned Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park, donated to the federal government by New York City.
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On Thursday, New York City officials raised a large rainbow Pride flag over the Stonewall National Memorial, which had been removed by the Trump administration earlier in the week. Hundreds of people flocked to Lower Manhattan to return the flag to the monument, which marks the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement in the United States. The act of defiance against the Trump administration took place during a ceremony led by Manhattan Boro…
New York politicians defiantly raised the rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Thursday, amid loud cheers from the crowd, which had been removed the day before by President Donald Trump's government, US media reported.
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New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument before a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBTQ+ landmark. More than a hundred people filled the tiny Greenwich Village park, many of them chanting, "Raise...
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