Stonewall Monument Pride flag removed by Trump admin was installed under Biden in 2022

The Trump administration says their removal of a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village is merely reinforcing a decades-old policy — but during the Biden predidency the feds installed a flagpole specifically to fly the LGBTQ flag at the historic site, the Daily News has learned.

On June 1, 2022, National Park Service workers, alongside local community leaders, installed a flagpole to fly the rainbow flag for the first time permanently on federal land inside of Christopher Park near the Stonewall Inn, the Queer Review reported at the time. That flagpole is the same one the rainbow flag, emblazone with National Park Service insignia, was removed from this week, sparking a firestorm of criticism.

The National Park Service superintendent for all Manhattan sites, who has since retired, attended the 2022 ceremony, activists who were there and worked with her to make the event happen say.

The Pride flag raised in 2022, replaced one flown on a temporary makeshift flagpole installed a year earlier by LGBTQ+ activist Steven Love Menendez, who says he had approval from the Biden administration.



https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/11/stonewall-monument-pride-flag-removed-by-trump-admin-was-installed-under-biden-in-2022/