USA: Keep the Pride flag at Stonewall
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Update – April 13, 2026: The rainbow Pride flag will be officially restored to the Stonewall National Monument. Following a legal settlement, the federal government has agreed to keep the flag flying at this historic site, ensuring our history is no longer erased. Thank you to everyone who signed the petition and stood with us to protect this vital symbol of our movement. We won!
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.
The Stonewall National Monument exists because Congress decided that the 1969 uprising against police harassment of LGBT+ people was worth commemorating as American civil rights history. Removing the Pride flag from that site contradicts the monument's purpose.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has introduced legislation to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag, protecting it from removal at federal sites. We urge you to pass it.
This is a narrow and achievable action. It does not reopen broad policy debates. It simply ensures that a monument to civil rights history is allowed to display the symbol of the civil rights movement it commemorates.
We ask you to act.
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