New York officials on Thursday hoisted a large rainbow Pride flag \u200bover the Stonewall National Monument that \u2060was removed by the Trump administration earlier in the week. Hundreds of people flocked to New York’s Lower \u200bManhattan to return the \u200cflag to the monument, which marks the birthplace of the modern U.S. gay rights movement. The act of defiance against the Trump administration was carried \u200bout during a ceremony led by Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and attended by city, state and federal elected officials. “The community should rejoice. We have prevailed,” Hoylman-Sigal said shortly \u200cafter the flag \u200cwas hoisted. “Our flag represents dignity \u200band human rights.” A U.S. Department of Interior spokesperson declined to say whether the department, which governs the agency with federal oversight of Stonewall, would remove the flag again. The flagpole and monument are in Christopher Park, \u200bmarking where gay, lesbian and transgender New Yorkers r
ioted and protested in response to a late-night police raid of the Stonewall Inn in 1969, a time when such raids of gay \u200bbars were commonplace. The Stonewall uprising was a watershed moment in the gay rights movement. The decision to remove the flag from the landmark outraged New Yorkers like Mike Hisey, who described it as an act of violence by President Donald Trump’s administration on the LGBT community. Nichole Mallete, \u200calso of New York, said the LGBT community would not be intimidated. “So he wants to take our flag. Go ahead. Because we have a million more to put up,” \u2060Mallete told Reuters. The National \u200bPark Service has federal oversight of Stonewall and other national U.S. monuments. The agency said earlier this week that it managed the flagpole at Stonewall and that the flag had been removed \u2060to ensure a “longstanding policy” \u2060was applied consistently across its sites. The \u2060Interior Department spokesperson on Thursday called the move to return the fla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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