"A protest is set for Tuesday afternoon at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City after the Trump administration removed the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from the site. That decision has drawn swift backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates, New York officials, and national civil rights groups who say the move is part of a broader effort to narrow how queer history is told on federal land."
"By late Tuesday afternoon, Christopher Park is expected to fill with people who know exactly why they're there. The gathering, advertised as a community rally to defend "our flag, our park, our history," was organized after the Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument, a decision that has turned a quiet patch of Greenwich Village into the latest front line in a national fight over memory, power, and who gets to decide what U.S. history looks like."
Protesters planned a rally at Stonewall National Monument after the Trump administration removed the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from the site, drawing swift backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates, New York officials, and national civil rights groups. The gathering at Christopher Park was scheduled for 5 p.m. and billed as a community rally to defend "our flag, our park, our history." The Pride flag was taken down without ceremony or announcement, and its absence was treated as a provocation on Christopher Street. Stonewall marks the 1969 uprising that helped ignite the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, making the flag's removal highly contentious.
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