US EditionSupporters Gather at Stonewall Amid Outcry over Pride Flag Removal
The Interior Department's 2023 directive limits flags on National Park sites, sparking protests and promises from officials to restore the pride flag at Stonewall National Monument.
- On Thursday, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal will join Democratic New York politicians and LGBTQ activists to re-raise a pride flag recently removed by the Interior Department at Stonewall National Monument.
- The DOI officials told regional park directors that the 2023 rules limit flags to historical, military, or federally recognized Tribal flags, and a DOI memo states flagpoles are not meant for public expression.
- Designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2016, the Stonewall Inn is widely considered the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, with references to transgender and queer people removed last year.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the removal `deeply outrageous` and vowed `that flag will return`, while Gov. Kathy Hochul protested and vowed she won't let the Trump administration `rollback the rights we fought so hard for`, and Zohran Mamdani, the NYC Mayor, said he is `outraged`.
- As a broader trend, the removal fits into a culture-wars fight by the Trump administration, and planned gatherings to re-raise the flag suggest protests and political mobilization at the historic LGBT site.
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The Trump administration stopped flying the rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Memorial, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic blow to the nation's first national monument to LGBTQ+ history. The multicolored flag, one of the world's most recognizable emblems of LGBTQ+ rights, was quietly removed in recent days from a flagpole at the site managed by the National Park Service, located in a small park in Greenwich Village, Manhatt…
It was posted outside the historic gay rights center in New York. Mamdani: "Outraged." (ANSA)
Advocates rally at Stonewall as electeds vow to raise Rainbow Flag once again
As outrage reverberated over the Trump administration’s removal of the Rainbow Flag at the Stonewall National Monument, advocates rallied at Christopher Park on Feb. 10 and elected officials announced plans to re-raise the flag within the week. The dramatic fallout stemming from the flag's removal, which was first reported by Gay City News, grew as the day progressed on Feb. 10, with LGBTQ lawmakers and allies blasting the Trump administration a…
NYC officials plan to return pride flag to Stonewall monument after removal
New York City (NYC) officials are planning to reinstall a pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after the Trump administration took it down. The Trump administration quietly took down a pride flag installed at the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, citing January guidance that limits the type of flags that can be displayed at sites managed by the National Park Service (NPS). The Department of Interior, NPS’ paren…
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