"For days, elected officials - including Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Manhattan State Senator Erik Bottcher - vowed to raise the flag during a 4 p.m. event on Feb. 12. Those elected officials indeed brought a Rainbow Flag attached to a thin flagpole and placed it next to the flagpole where the original Rainbow Flag was located, but the new flag did not get attached to the actual flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument - and it was only flying at about half-staff."
"Our elected officials, though I love them, brought in their own flagpole and planted it in the ground in front of it, and their plastic pole was lower than that flagpole, so it resulted in our Rainbow Flag being lower than [the American Flag] and not on the actual flagpole. The least we could do is to put our flag higher on this cord than the American Flag."
Three days after the Trump administration removed a Rainbow Flag from the Stonewall National Monument, a large crowd of LGBTQ community members gathered at Christopher Park to restore the flag. Elected officials brought a Rainbow Flag on a thin, separate pole and left it planted in front of the monument’s flagpole, where it flew at about half-staff and lower than the American flag. Frustrated activists approached the monument, used scissors to attach a Rainbow Flag to the actual flagpole, and raised it inches above the American flag. The restoration followed the flag’s original 2022 installation under President Joe Biden.
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