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NY officials raise a rainbow flag at Stonewall before a boisterous crowd after Trump-era removal

(13 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++THUMBNAIL++ STILL - New York politicians and activists raise a rainbow flag on a pole in Christopher Park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in New York, a few days after it was removed by the National Park Service to comply with guidance from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, ID: 26043798287487) ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 12 February 2026 1. Various of Pride flag pole being planted next to U.S. American flag 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abby Stein, Rabbi from Brooklyn, New York: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ "We had a few speakers, and that was beautiful. Then some of the politicians led by Borough President Brad Hoylman(-Siga), and a lot of other elected officials who came to raise the flag. I think a lot people had different ideas of what that's going to look like. But more importantly, originally the flag was just attached, and people really wanted to have it hanging on the official kind of flagpole. Which took a bit and thanks to a lot of great activists, a lot of great people who managed to come together, figure out a way to do what we do best, which is to come together and do what's best for our community and to get the flag up there." 3. Wide of crowd in attendance 4. Wide of Pride flag being raised on same the pole as the U.S. American flag 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abby Stein, Rabbi from Brooklyn, New York: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ "What we saw happening with the flag wasn't just about a flag. It was what it symbolizes. It symbolizes an attempt to erase people. It's what happened last year. When they removed the trans flag, it's what happened when they removed trans people from the website of the Stonewall National Monument and it's what happened this week when they removed the flag." 6. Various of Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center entrance 7. Pride flag and U.S. American flag blowing together in the wind STORYLINE: New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBTQ+ landmark. “We did it,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal after helping raise the flag near an existing American flag in a tiny Greenwich Village park jammed with more than a hundred people. Until a few days ago, the flag had flown for several years on a flagpole in the park at the heart of the National Park Service-run site. The park is across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 police raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. The initial rainbow flag-raising, on a pole brought to the park, was short-lived. Activists, annoyed that the rainbow flag was flying lower on a separate pole, promptly took it down and raised it again on the same pole as the American flag, leaving the two flags on the same rope billowing in the chilly breeze. The park service said it's complying with federal guidance on flags, including a Jan. 21 park service memo that largely restricts the agency to displaying those of the United States with exceptions that include providing “historical context.” Activists who had pressed for the flag display consider its removal a deliberate insult that compounds other recent changes that they find objectionable and ominous, such as eliminating many references to transgender people at the monument. (AP Video by David Martin) =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...