{"id":130319,"date":"2026-02-11T19:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:01:23","slug":"fed-worker-raises-american-flag-at-nyc-stonewall-monument-in-place-of-removed-pride-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130319\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed worker raises American flag at NYC Stonewall Monument in place of removed Pride flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal parks worker on Wednesday afternoon raised an American flag inside the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, replacing the Pride flag removed earlier this week<\/a> after a Trump administration directive that sparked widespread outrage.<\/p>\n

Local elected officials and activists have vowed to re-raise the LGBTQ+ flag Thursday afternoon in defiance of the newly-enforced federal policy that only U.S. flags can be flown at federal sites, with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n

Following orders from a Jan. 21 memo from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the large rainbow flag was removed from the monument inside Christopher Park<\/a> that pays tribute to the birth of the gay rights movement near the Stonewall Inn over the weekend.<\/p>\n

No flag flew on the pole for at least a couple of days. Then on Wednesday, a\u00a0National Parks Service<\/a> worker hoisted a U.S. flag up the black flagpole inside the small park near Grove and Christopher Sts. about 12:30 p.m. He declined to comment when approached by a Daily News photographer.<\/p>\n

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal on Tuesday said that he and other local, state and federal officials plan to raise a rainbow flag back up the flagpole in protest Thursday. He noted the Trump administration previously removed references to transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument\u2019s government website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think this is about standing up for the future of the LGBTQ community, just as those Stonewall veterans back in 1969 did,\u201d Hoylman-Sigal said Tuesday. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s deeply personal as an out LGBTQ elected official but also as a parent. What lesson are we sending to our young people?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stonewall was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2016. The riot at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 is recognized as the beginning of the LGBTQ civil rights movement in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\"AA rainbow pride flag has been removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village because of a directive from the Trump administration. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News; Sheetal Banchariya \/ NYDN)
\n\"ProtestersProtesters fill Christopher Park, site of the Stonewall National Monument, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Tuesday after a rainbow Pride flag was was removed because of a Trump administration directive. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"ProtestersProtesters fill Christopher Park, site of the Stonewall National Monument, in Greenwich Village on Tuesday after a rainbow Pride flag was was removed because of a Trump administration directive. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"AA National Park Service employee raises a U.S. Flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan on Wednesday. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)
\n\"AA National Park Service employee raises a U.S. Flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan on Wednesday. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal parks worker on Wednesday afternoon raised an American flag inside the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2659,85,607,86,9,10,692,12,56,63,261,65,64,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-130319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-national-news","11":"tag-national-politics","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-politics","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-crime","19":"tag-nyc-headlines","20":"tag-nyc-news","21":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130319","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=130319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}