"Two federal lawsuits filed this week have turned a single flagpole in New York City's Greenwich Village into a referendum on how the United States tells its own story. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. At issue is the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ rights movement."
"Together, the cases take on a dispute that is only partly about a piece of fabric. More fundamentally, they ask whether the federal government can selectively narrow the historical record presented in public spaces and whether Stonewall, of all places, can be stripped of a symbol that has become inseparable from its meaning. The New York case was brought by the Gilbert Baker Foundation, Village Preservation, Equality New York, and other plaintiffs against the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service."
Two federal lawsuits contest the National Park Service's removal of the NPS-sanctioned Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument, which had flown since 2022. One suit in Manhattan seeks court orders to restore the flag at Stonewall. A broader suit in Massachusetts challenges what plaintiffs describe as a coordinated Trump administration effort to erase disfavored history and science from national parks nationwide. Plaintiffs in New York include the Gilbert Baker Foundation, Village Preservation, and Equality New York, who allege the agency acted unlawfully and arbitrarily in removing the official Pride flag, which bore the Park Service insignia and symbolized permanent federal recognition.
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