A Pride flag is flying over Stonewall National Monument in New York City once again.
Its return come after the LGBTQ symbol was removed due to a federal order from President Donald Trump, per The Hill.
The flag’s return was heralded by hundreds who watched as the flag was hoisted Thursday.
“We did it,” Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said, The Associated Press reported.
“If you can’t fly a Pride flag steps from Stonewall monument, at the National monument for LGBTQ liberation, where can you fly it?” Hoylman-Sigal asked. “So, we put it back.”
Holyman-Sigal is the first openly gay borough head in the city’s history.
He confirmed on Feb. 9 that the flag had been removed.
“They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again. Stay tuned,” he wrote on X then.
The National Park Service runs the site, which commemorates the June 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan. This was a six-day rebellion that sparked the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement.
NPS said the flag was removed because the Trump administration now restricts the agency to displaying mostly American flags or Interior Department flags. There are some exceptions, such as flags of military branches.
There flag’s removal sparked uproar from LGBTQ activists, as well as criticism from city and state leaders.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote on Feb. 10 post he was “outraged” to learn the rainbow flag had been taken down.
“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mamdani wrote. “Our city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it.”
“I will always fight for a New York City that invests in our LGBTQ+ community, defends their dignity, and protects every one of our neighbors—without exception,” he added.
This move was part of Trump’s push to have broader control over what is displayed at federal cultural institutions.
