Pride Flag Will Fly At Stonewall National Monument After Feds Agree To Settlement

NEW YORK CITY — A rainbow Pride flag will stay at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after the Trump administration agreed to a court settlement on Monday.

The pride flag was removed at the site in February after a Jan. 21 directive from the Trump administration that said that only the U.S. flag, flags of the Department of the Interior, and the POW/MIA flag could be flown at sites run by the National Parks Service.

The flag was re-raised three days later at a rally organized by local elected officials.

As part of the settlement, the Trump administration agreed to a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of nonprofits, which argued that the move violated federal law, according to CNN.

In addition, the flag is set to return to the monument’s official flagpole within the next seven days.

“We fought the Trump administration – and we won. I'm thrilled that after we rallied and re-raised the Pride flag with elected officials and advocates on February 13, the Trump administration has blinked and backed down from its contemptuous attempt to erase American history," Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said.

"I'm extremely grateful to the Gilbert Baker Foundation, Lambda Legal, Equality New York, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and other advocates and everyone who had the courage to take the Trump Administration to court and the hundreds of New Yorkers who joined us to re-raise the Pride flag at Stonewall.”

The Stonewall National Monument is the site of the 1969 riot that ignited the modern LGBTQ rights movement.