Pride Flag At NYC's Stonewall National Monument Removed After Trump Directive

NEW YORK CITY — A rainbow pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village over the weekend following a new directive from the Trump administration.

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal in a social media post confirmed that a January 21st federal order resulted in the removal of the flag.

"They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again," he wrote.

According to the Jan. 21 memo, only the U.S. flag, flags of the Department of the Interior, and the POW/MIA flag "will be flown by the National Parks Service in public spaces where the NPS is responsible for the upkeep, maintenance, and operation of the flag and flagpole."

In addition, flagpoles and buildings under the jurisdiction of the U.S. General Services Administration, which the Stonewall National Monument falls under are apparently "not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public," the memo stated.

A number of local elected officials expressed outrage over the flag removal.

Council Speaker Julie Menin wrote in a social media post that the flag removal was 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," she added.

Sen. Charles Schumer called the removal of the flag a "deeply outrageous action that must be reversed right now.”

“New Yorkers are right to be outraged, but if there’s one thing I know about this latest attempt to rewrite history, stoke division and discrimination and erase our community pride, it’s this: That flag will return. New Yorkers will see to it.”

Hoylman-Sigal said that he and others plan to raise the flag back up at the monument on Thursday, according to multiple media reports.

"New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a social media post.