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#Pride Flag Is Removed From #Stonewall Monument After #Trump Directive

The removal of the flag from the #Manhattan monument, the symbolic heart of the #GayRights movement, came after a Trump admin memo, the latest step in the Trump admin’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives & the second time in less than a year it has targeted the Greenwich Village site.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/pride-flag-stonewall-inn-monument.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive

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@wendinoakland@beige.party replied · 2 hours ago

@Nonilex New York Ciry should step in and correct this

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

The flag’s removal came weeks after the Dept of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System, which includes a small park in front of the #Stonewall Inn, the bar for which the federal monument is named.

Elected officials & bar employees said they realized the rainbow flag was gone on Monday morning. On Tuesday, a bare flagpole stood on the monument’s grounds as steely clouds hung overhead.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

Stacy Lentz, an owner of the bar, said its owners were surprised by the removal, since a year has passed since the #Trump admin removed references to #transgender people from the monument’s website & other materials.
“To think you can go to #Stonewall & just take down the #Pride flag—that is telling of the time we are living in. It is unbelievable. The flag is not just an abstract symbol; it tells #LGBTQ people, especially younger ones, that their history will not be sidelined again,” Lentz said

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 10 hours ago

In response to questions about the flag’s removal, the National Park Service on Tuesday pointed to that memo, saying in a statement that “only the U.S. flag & other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on N.P.S.-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions.”

More than 100 people rallied outside the #Stonewall Inn late Tuesday afternoon to protest the flag’s removal.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 10 hours ago

“Government institutions have not always been reliable narrators of #history, & that isn’t an accusation, it’s a historical fact,” she said. “The concern isn’t about the symbolism of the flag necessarily; it’s about what decisions are being made when the narrative isn’t controlled by the people who have lived that history.”

On Tuesday, Mayor #ZohranMamdani said he was “outraged” by the flag’s removal.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 10 hours ago

#Stonewall is the first historic site in the #US dedicated to the nation’s #LGBTQrights movement. The Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street, has long been seen as a cradle of the movement after a police raid there in June 1969 set off 3 days of protests & riots in the surrounding streets.

Since then, the site has become well known on a global scale, & #LGBTQ events & organizations in several countries, including Britain, Australia & Germany, have been named in its honor.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 10 hours ago

The original #Pride flag debuted in 1978, according to the Park Service website, with each of the 8 colors symbolizing an aspect of the #LGBTQ community’s experience.

In 2016, President Barack #Obama designated the 7.7-acre site a national monument, encompassing the #Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park & several nearby streets & sidewalks. Parts of the site are also designated as a city landmark & a state historical site.

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