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The Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani reacted to this new attack on the group by the Trump Administration by calling it an “act of suppression.”
The National Park Service, the federal agency that oversees the country’s national monuments, explained that the flag was removed in application of guidance issued in 2023, which states that government-run flagpoles do not constitute a forum for free public expression.
According to this regulation, flags can be flown, in addition to the American one, which express the official sentiments of the Federal Government.
The place was designated a United States national monument in 2016 by then-president Barack Obama.
Trump’s antiLGTBI agenda
Trump and other Republican politicians have focused part of their agenda on the restriction of LGTBI rights, especially those of people transgender.
Since his return to the White House, the Republican has signed an executive order stating that eThe US Government only recognizes two sexesmasculine and feminine, and orders to use the term “sex” instead of “gender” in federal policies and documents.
This order also requires eliminate references to the so-called “gender ideology” and to remove mentions of trans, non-binary or queer identities from official materials, which in practice reduces recognition to something closer to “LGB” (sexual orientation) and erases trans and non-binary identities.
It has also promoted measures to ban trans people from the Armyrestrict access to documentation with a gender marker other than that assigned at birth and cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Stonewall, an LGTBI symbol
The flagpole and monument rise in Christopher Park to commemorate the uprising of dozens of gay, lesbian and transgender New Yorkers who rioted and protested in response to an overnight police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
The police raid that night of June 28, a common practice of law enforcement in bars frequented by LGTBI people, ended triggering confrontations when clients and neighbors of the neighborhood refused to continue putting up with the abuse and humiliation.
For several nights, lesbians, gays, trans people, drag queens and homeless youth organized in the streets to resist the Police and express their exhaustion at the systematic persecution.
Stonewall if you consider a turning point in the history of the LGTBI movement because, from those riots, arosenew activist organizations who were betting on public visibility and open fight for civil rights.
A year later, in June 1970, marches in cities like New York and Los Angeles to commemorate the riots, giving rise to the first demonstrations of Pride that Over time they expanded throughout the world.
Since then, Stonewall has been remembered as the symbol of the moment when a historically marginalized community said enough and turned anger into a global political movement.