The Trump administration in January issued guidance drastically limiting the types of flags that could be displayed at NPS-managed sites.PoliticoBy Gregory Svirnovskiy02/10/2026New York City officials plan to reraise a pride flag at the federal monument at Stonewall in Manhattan, setting up a potential fight with the White House at the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement nearly 60 years ago.Federal officials quietly took the flag down after the Trump administration in January issued guidance drastically limiting the types of flags that could be displayed at sites managed by the National Park Service. But Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said in an interview Tuesday that he and other New York City-area politicians would reraise the flag at the federal monument Thursday.“I think it’s important that we speak out and stand up for the community, frankly, just as our forebearers, who exhibited much more courage back in 1969,” he said. “This is not a moment for our community to stand by idly as attempts to undermine our history are put forward by Trump and the federal administration.”
Mark my words... marriage is next on their radar.
So many underpants are in a twist over this flag flap. Here is a comment I left over at the moaners and groaners over at the Ct. Pride Site.
ReplyDeletePolitical queers learned a long time ago, even before Gilbert Baker but needle and thread to fabric in 1978 that our liberation and what we had the potential not only for ourselves but for all of humanity must be and was in OUR HANDS. I have to wonder why folks who gathered to protest the removal of the rainbow flag had not brought a flag to replace it with. Climb the pole, boys fly our flag, and not wait for OUTSIDER politicians to answer the cries of a community under attack. Let us remember as the fascists step by step to the new order that the sheltering wings of either party is not in the spirit of Stonewall but just may move us toward cowardness, turncoatism, and a lazy, scared people. Expecting someone else to come and rescue us.
Yes, indeed, as hopefully many of us know from OurStories the small can be significant but only when we seize the means to stop it from growing. Here, the key idea is “we seize the means.” If we wish to talk about being erased from the story and erased from OurStories and the history of this country, then when legal Fascism erases all references to the Trans community, Bi community and Queers, is the real denying of our history. I wonder, as I did then, if anyone is there on tour days at this national monument to tell the real story and not leave it up to folks who give tours, and who cannot tell the whole truth by reason of bosses. Go there, tell the real story, be educated, do not allow anyone else to tell our story.
In my study of the history of the straight world, in the study of OurStories and in the study of those who have fought back against the fascists, it is a well-known fact that as the step-by-step process of erasure is happening, distractions are created to hide what is really going on behind the scenes. There are many battles ahead and happening now to get heated up for, and for myself personally, as a keeper of OurStories this flag flap is not one of them. I do not salute any flag, I do not believe in the boundaries that they create or the fictions of nations. It is just too small and confining. All in all can I say to Mr. Sigal, In 1969 we would not have waited for a politician to re-raise the flag, we would have done it ourselves.