The Trump administration has removed the rainbow Pride Flag that flew at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.
This is just the latest example of Team Trump’s efforts to erase the queer community from the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
In February 2025, shortly after Trump returned to the White House, the National Park Service removed references to transgender and queer people from the official Stonewall National Monument website.
They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
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— Michelangelo Signorile (@msignorile.bsky.social) February 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Fuck these guys for removing the Pride flag from the Stonewall Monument. The queer history of Stonewall isn’t changing, and the queer people of today aren’t changing.
The National Park Service confirmed the flag’s removal on February 9, as first reported by Gay City News.
In June 1969, patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back against a police raid, setting off days of protests which gave birth to the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Christopher Street Park, near the Stonewall Inn, was designated a national monument in 2016 by former President Barack Obama and is overseen by the National Park Service (NPS).
A statement to Gay City News from the U.S. Interior Department said the move reflects long-standing federal rules governing which flags may fly on government property:
“Under government-wide guidance, including General Services Administration policy and Department of the Interior direction, only the U.S. flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on NPS-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions.”
“Any changes to flag displays are made to ensure consistency with that guidance. Stonewall National Monument continues to preserve and interpret the site’s historic significance through exhibits and programs.”
That statement begs the question: why isn’t the Pride flag given a “limited exception?”
We have confirmed that a January 21st federal order has resulted in the removal last weekend of the Pride flag at Stonewall, birthplace of the modern LGBTQ human rights movement.
They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again. Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/8ou8aQKGOq
— Brad Hoylman-Sigal 🌈🥯 (@bradhoylman) February 10, 2026
Local political leaders, including Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, told Gay City News in a joint statement:
“This is a deliberate act of erasure. The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth. Our history will not be erased, and our Pride is not theirs to take down.
And City Council Speaker Julie Menin issued this statement:
“Stonewall is sacred ground It is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and the removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument is a deliberate and cowardly attempt to erase that history.
“This is an attack on LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, and we will not stand for it. Our history will not be rewritten, and our rights will not be rolled back.”
A protest, advertised as a community rally to defend “our flag, our park, our history,” has been organized for today at 5pm at the Stonewall National Monument.
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