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Posted on 02/10/2026 5:20:06 PM PST by crusty old prospector
New York City officials plan to reraise a pride flag at the federal monument at Stonewall in Manhattan, setting up a potential fight with the White House at the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement nearly 60 years ago. Federal officials quietly took the flag down after the Trump administration in January issued guidance drastically limiting the types of flags that could be displayed at sites managed by the National Park Service. But Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said in an interview Tuesday that he and other New York City-area politicians would reraise the flag at the federal monument Thursday.
“I think it’s important that we speak out and stand up for the community, frankly, just as our forebearers, who exhibited much more courage back in 1969,” he said. “This is not a moment for our community to stand by idly as attempts to undermine our history are put forward by Trump and the federal administration.”
The Stonewall Inn was the site of famous protests in 1969, which were sparked after police raided the New York City gay bar and arrested its patrons. The subsequent uprisings led to greater visibility for gay and lesbian people across the country. The inn remains in private hands, but a park across the street is national parkland. Hoylman-Sigal said New York City officials intended to raise the flag on federal land. The Department of the Interior — NPS’ parent agency — confirmed the flag was removed in a statement. “Under government-wide guidance, including General Services Administration policy and Department of the Interior direction, only the U.S. flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on NPS-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions,” Interior said in a statement. “Any changes to flag displays are made to ensure consistency with that guidance.”
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They seem to enjoy drama.
All that for a raid on a mob-owned bar?
Fabulouso! Wait, that is the purple cleaning solution.
I grow weary of the phrase “our community.”
They are overgrown theater kids after all.
Trump needs to call the local mafia and let them handle this.
Not your granddaddy’s NYC
Pronto.
The NYC underground is awakening. We will see who is in charge.
I know how you feel.
I think they need to empty the honey buckets of a dozen airplanes on these people while they are doing that. That ought to be enough for the job.
They seem to like fecal matter.
Only democrats would consider making a fag bar a national monument.
Would it count if someone put it up a place where the sun doesn’t shine and then hoisted him up so they both would swing across the monument in the breeze? Fundamentally right.
Could always take potshots at it.
That’s a hate crime.
God has a special rage against homosexuality: it wrecks people, destroys families and can even bring down cities.
These persons who insist on foisting this evil upon our culture will pay a terrible price.
What did the left say about Twitter before Elon bought it? Get your own social media website?
Tell the NYC officials to get their own monument….
first they have to remove the snow they never did the garbage underneath they never collected before the snow and the frozen dead homeless in the way
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