{"id":131594,"date":"2026-02-12T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131594\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:11:09","slug":"nyc-council-resolution-rejects-stonewall-flag-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131594\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council resolution rejects Stonewall flag removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City Council has advanced a resolution urging Congress to protect LGBTQ history at Stonewall National Monument after the Trump administration ordered Pride flags to be removed from the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resolution 1255<\/a> passed the council\u2019s cultural affairs committee 6-0 on Wednesday morning, and now awaits consideration from the full chamber. Lead sponsor Chi Oss\u00e9 told The Advocate that the resolution marks a step toward combating President Donald Trump\u2019s anti-LGBTQ agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese attacks that we\u2019re seeing on LGBTQ history [are] … a distraction from the actual enemies we have at hand, which are Donald Trump [and] the fascist right-wing government,\u201d said Councilmember Oss\u00e9, a Democrat who represents the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford\u2013Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration issued a federal directive<\/a> last month that prohibited national parks from flying banners other than the U.S. flag, with few exceptions. Similar orders have restricted what flags can be flown at U.S. embassies<\/a> and military outposts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The orders seem to be a crackdown on symbols like the Pride flag and Black Lives Matter<\/a> slogan from appearing at government buildings, which Trump has previously criticized<\/a>. But hundreds of protesters<\/a> who have convened outside Stonewall argue the Pride flag is integral to commemorating LGBTQ history at the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to erase anything that accurately conveys the history of struggle of marginalized communities in this country,\u201d Jay W. Walker, a New York City activist, told The Advocate at a protest Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back during a June 1969 police raid and helped set in motion a national movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Stonewall is widely regarded as one of the most important sites of LGBTQ history in the United States, and was designated a national monument<\/a> by President Barack Obama in 2016.<\/p>\n

The resolution \u201cgoes beyond just a flag,\u201d said Councilmember Justin Sanchez, a co-sponsor, during Wednesday\u2019s committee meeting. \u201cWhat removing a flag or desecrating any of our park space does is remove the places and the spaces where we get to see and be ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stonewall\u2019s status as federal property means the federal government, and Trump, have jurisdiction over the site. But local officials, including Oss\u00e9, members of city council and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have promised to push back against the Pride flag removal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am outraged by the removal of the Rainbow Pride Flag from Stonewall National Monument,\u201d Mamdani posted on the social media platform X<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cNew York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was written as part of the Future of Queer Media fellowship program at The Advocate, which is underwritten by a generous gift from Morrison Media Group<\/a>. The program helps support the next generation of LGBTQ+ journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Council has advanced a resolution urging Congress to protect LGBTQ history at Stonewall National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[301,153,9,24,56,63,65,64,56021,55645,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-stonewall","17":"tag-stonewall-inn","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131594","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=131594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}