"New York politicians and activists hoisted a large Pride flag to the Stonewall National Monument's flagpole on Thursday afternoon, February 12, in defiance of a federal directive to take down any flags or pennants that aren't the United States flag or from the Department of the Interior. It takes a lot to get New Yorkers to stand outdoors in subfreezing temperatures for more than an hour,"
""Whose streets? Our streets! Whose park? Our park! Whose neighborhood? Our neighborhood!" chanted several hundred people, who spilled into Christopher and Grove streets. National Park Service (NPS) employees had quietly removed the rainbow Pride flag on Monday, almost exactly a year after scrubbing multiple references to transgender and queer people from descriptions on its website of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ movement. On Wednesday, federal employees reportedly installed a US flag on the pole where the Pride flag had flown."
On February 12, New York politicians and activists hoisted a large Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument flagpole in Christopher Park to reject a federal directive limiting flags to the U.S. flag or Department of the Interior banners. Several hundred people gathered and chanted in subfreezing temperatures. National Park Service employees had removed the rainbow Pride flag days earlier, coming after edits to Stonewall-related website language that removed transgender and queer references. The removal was linked to a broader White House effort to alter historic displays, and city and state leaders vowed to return the flag.
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