NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A rainbow pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village over the weekend following a new directive from the Trump administration. <\/p>\n
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal in a social media post confirmed that a January 21st federal order resulted in the removal of the flag. <\/p>\n
“They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again,” he wrote. <\/p>\n
According to the Jan. 21 memo, only the U.S. flag, flags of the Department of the Interior, and the POW\/MIA flag “will be flown by the National Parks Service in public spaces where the NPS is responsible for the upkeep, maintenance, and operation of the flag and flagpole.”<\/p>\n
In addition, flagpoles and buildings under the jurisdiction of the U.S. General Services Administration, which the Stonewall National Monument falls under are apparently “not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public,” the memo stated. <\/p>\n
A number of local elected officials expressed outrage over the flag removal. <\/p>\n
Council Speaker Julie Menin wrote in a social media post that the flag removal was an “attack on LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, and we will not stand for it.”<\/p>\n
\u201cOur history will not be rewritten, and our rights will not be rolled back,” she added. <\/p>\n
Sen. Charles Schumer called the removal of the flag a “deeply outrageous action that must be reversed right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNew Yorkers are right to be outraged, but if there\u2019s one thing I know about this latest attempt to rewrite history, stoke division and discrimination and erase our community pride, it\u2019s this: That flag will return. New Yorkers will see to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hoylman-Sigal said that he and others plan to raise the flag back up at the monument on Thursday, according to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n
“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a social media post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A rainbow pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-129393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}