NY officials raise a rainbow flag at Stonewall before a boisterous crowd after Trump-era removal

Описание: (12 Feb 2026)
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New York - 12 February 2026
1. Wide of Stonewall National Monument, crowd chanting, UPSOUND (English) Unknown man: "When our community is under attack what do we do?, Stand up fight back!, When our flag is under attack what do we do?, Stand up fight back!"
2. Various of Pride flag pole being planted next to U.S. American flag
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abby Stein, Rabbi from Brooklyn, New York:
"We had a few speakers, and that was beautiful. Then some of the politicians led by Borough President Brad Hoylman(-Siga), along with the new state senator of this district, Erik Bottcher, and a lot of other elected officials who came to raise the flag. I think a lot people had different ideas of what that's going to look like. But more importantly, originally the flag was just attached, and people really wanted to have it hanging on the official kind of flagpole. Which took a bit and thanks to a lot of great activists, a lot of great people who managed to come together, figure out a way to do what we do best, which is to come together and do what's best for our community and to get the flag up there."
4. Wide of crowd in attendance
5. Wide of Pride flag being raised on same the pole as the U.S. American flag
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abby Stein, Rabbi from Brooklyn, New York:
"What we saw happening with the flag wasn't just about a flag. It was what it symbolizes. It symbolizes an attempt to erase people. It's what happened last year. When they removed the trans flag is what happened when they remove trans people from the site of the Stonewall National Monument and is what happens this week when they removed the flag. And I think as such really what you need to understand is there's a lot of emotion, a lot of history, a lots of connection, a lot of feelings that Stonewall carries for people and rightfully so."
7. Various of Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center entrance
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Tjaden, Activist:
"I think overall we got there, we got it right in the end. I saw not a great representation of what it meant to re-raise our flag. You know, it wasn't on the actual pole. It happened to be quite lower than the American flag. It needed to fly equally and in its rightful place, so I felt compelled to go up and help make that happen."
9. Close-up of Pride flag and U.S. American flag blowing together in the wind
STORYLINE:
New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBTQ+ landmark.

“We did it,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal after helping raise the flag near an existing American flag in a tiny Greenwich Village park jammed with more than a hundred people.

Until a few days ago, the flag had flown for several years on a flagpole in the park at the heart of the National Park Service-run site. The park is across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 police raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The initial rainbow flag-raising, on a pole brought to the park, was short-lived. Activists, annoyed that the rainbow flag was flying lower on a separate pole, promptly took it down and raised it again on the same pole as the American flag, leaving the two flags on the same rope billowing in the chilly breeze.



The park service has not answered specific questions about the Stonewall site and the flag policy, including whether any flags were removed from other parks.




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