"More than 1,000 people formed a sea of rainbow and transgender flags and handmade signs, flooding the area surrounding Lower Manhattan's Christopher Park in Greenwich Village after the Trump administration ordered the Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument earlier this week. Stonewall, the site of the June 1969 uprising against a police raid that helped ignite the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, has always been more than a landmark."
"Designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2016, it has become a site where history is not only remembered but actively contested. The gathering followed days of condemnation from city, state, and federal leaders who denounced the removal, which the National Park Service said on Tuesday was done to comply with longstanding federal flag policy, as an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ history from the nation's capital for queer memory."
"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the removal "deeply outrageous" and said that "no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history." He added that the city has a "duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it" and vowed to continue fighting for LGBTQ+ dignity and protection. By late afternoon, the park was packed. People lined its perimeter and spilled onto nearby streets and sidewalks, some bearing rainbow and transgender pride flags and handmade signs."
More than 1,000 people gathered at Christopher Park in Greenwich Village with rainbow and transgender flags and handmade signs after the Trump administration ordered the Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument. Stonewall is the site of the June 1969 uprising that helped ignite the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and was designated a national monument in 2016. The National Park Service said the removal complied with longstanding federal flag policy, prompting condemnation from city, state, and federal leaders who called the action an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ history. By late afternoon the park was packed, chants rose, and elected officials including State Sen. Erik Bottcher and U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman joined the crowd.
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