{"id":129518,"date":"2026-02-11T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:33:11","slug":"trump-admin-yanks-rainbow-flag-from-nycs-stonewall-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129518\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin yanks rainbow flag from NYC’s Stonewall monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration has yanked down <\/a>a large rainbow flag from in front of the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, infuriating gay-rights supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Park Service quietly removed the flag from a pole in Christopher Park in front of the famed Stonewall Inn in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The agency told the Gay City News<\/a> on Monday that an US Department of the Interior directive only allows for the American flag and other authorized flags to fly on federal poles, with \u201climited exceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The National Park Service quietly removed the flag from a pole in Christopher Park in front of the famed Stonewall Inn in Manhattan. William Farrington for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s outrageous,\u2019\u2019 fumed Allen Roskoff, 75, the founder of the Jim Owles LGBT Liberal Democratic Club who came out at age 19, shortly after the 1969 Stonewall Riots that sparked the nation\u2019s modern gay-rights movement.<\/p>\n

West Village resident Daniel Mercurio, 58, added, \u201cThe flag isn\u2019t a political symbol, it\u2019s an American symbol.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t stand seeing the government instituting some obscure flag rule as an excuse to enforce its xenophobic agenda,\u2019\u2019 he told The Post.<\/p>\n

Mercurio was one of about 100 people who gathered at the site Tuesday to demand the flag be put back at the historically important site.<\/p>\n

People walk past The Stonewall Inn after authorities removed the Pride flag from the Greenwich Village site of the Stonewall National Monument, where LGBTQ+ rights movement was born, in New York City, U.S., February 10, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The National Park Service did not respond to an inquiry from The Post.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined in the outrage over the flag\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n

But there doesn\u2019t appear to be much they can do.<\/p>\n

The city donated the 0.12-acre Christopher Park to the federal government in 2016, the same year former President Barack Obama designated Stonewall National Monument as a national monument, according to the National Parks Service.<\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t appear to be much Mayor Mamdani can do about the removal. Mayor Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n

The rainbow flag had been permanently flying at the site since 2022 \u2014 first rainbow flag to permanently fly over federal land.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,\u2019\u2019 Mamdani tweeted<\/a>. \u201cOur city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Menin as well as some other council members fired off a letter<\/a> to Jessica Bowron, the director of the National Parks Service, to express their \u201cextreme concern\u201d over the flag\u2019s removal and demand its return.<\/p>\n

A Pride flag flies over the Stonewall National Monument as people protest against U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s move to restrict transgender rights, in New York City., February 14, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision sends a deeply troubling message, one that shows the world that we are willing to sanitize and erase our history and the very values that make America great,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n

Stonewall co-owner Stacy Lentz said she and her partners only learned late Monday that the rainbow flag had vanished.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this is a flag that just represents politics,\u201d Lentz told The Post. \u201cIt really is a historical landmark, and it was made a national monument because it\u2019s the first place of the LGBTQ rights movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a political symbol. It\u2019s a historical one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has yanked down a large rainbow flag from in front of the Stonewall National Monument…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,55763,412,57,55644,9,56,63,65,64,87,55645,58,2380],"class_list":["post-129518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-donald-trump","tag-gay-pride","tag-lgbtqia","tag-metro","tag-national-park-service","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-stonewall-inn","tag-us-news","tag-west-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129518","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=129518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}