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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:59 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump admin take down the Stonewall National Monument pride flag, New Yorkers put it up again

https://www.aol.com/articles/ny-officials-raise-rainbow-flag-220707269.html

NEW YORK (AP) — New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBTQ+ landmark.

“We did it,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal after helping raise the flag near an existing American flag in a tiny Greenwich Village park jammed with more than a hundred people. Many onlookers chanted “Raise it Up!”

“If you can’t fly a Pride flag steps from Stonewall monument, at the National monument for LGBTQ liberation, where can you fly it?” asked Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat who is the first openly gay person elected to his job. “So we put it back.”

Until a few days ago, the flag had flown for several years on a flagpole in the park at the heart of the National Park Service-run site. The park is across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 police raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
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Trump admin take down the Stonewall National Monument pride flag, New Yorkers put it up again (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 13 hrs ago OP
Mahalo, New Yorkers! Cha 12 hrs ago #1
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