"President Donald Trump directed the National Park Service (NPS) to remove the Rainbow Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City on February 5, 2026. This came just one year after the NPS deleted all references to transgender and queer people from its website of the Stonewall National Monument through Trump's executive order. The initialism that once read LGBTQ+ has been reduced to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay, and bisexual."
"Many historians and activists place the beginning of the modern movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, an asexual equality at the Stonewall Inn, a small bar frequented by trans people, lesbians, bisexuals, gay males, street people, students, and others located at 53 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village in late June 1969."
"During his first and second regimes, Trump has issued several executive orders in his attempt to erase LGBTQ+ history, people, and identities from the U.S. experience. He has banned trans athletes from school and professional sports, from using the public facilities of their choice, and from choosing to have gender-affirming procedures to maintain their bodily autonomy. He signed an executive order declaring that there are only two genders. This led to a series of specific policy changes."
President Donald Trump directed the National Park Service to remove the Rainbow Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument on February 5, 2026. A year earlier, the NPS deleted references to transgender and queer people from the monument's website under a Trump executive order, reducing the initialism LGBTQ+ to LGB. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal plan to re-raise the Pride Flag in defiance of the ban. Many historians and activists identify the Stonewall Inn and the June 1969 events as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ equality movement. Trump has issued multiple executive orders restricting trans rights in sports, facilities, and medical care.
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