Congress can protect the Pride flag at a landmark of American civil rights history. Add your name.
Stonewall marks the 1969 uprising in New York City where LGBT+ people resisted police raids and demanded equal treatment under the law. In 2016 it became a national monument for that reason.
When a federal Trump directive ordered the Pride flag removed from the site in February 2026, city leaders reinstated it on a new pole alongside the American flag. The message was deliberate: LGBT+ history is American history.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has now introduced legislation to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag. That designation would protect it from removal at federal sites, including Stonewall, in the same way the American flag is protected.
Congress should pass it. A national monument loses meaning when the history it was built to honor gets quietly edited out.
