NY officials raise rainbow flag at Stonewall in rebuke of Trump administration

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. “If you can’t fly a pride flag steps from Stonewall, at the National monument for LGBTQ liberation, where can you fly it?” Hoyman-Sigal asked.