LGBTQ+ groups score legal victory over Trump, restoring Pride flag at Stonewall

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

LGBTQ+ groups score legal victory over Trump, restoring Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/stonewall-monument-pride-flag-restored 🔗

Christopher Wiggins (13 April 2026)

The rainbow Pride flag will return permanently to the Stonewall National Monument after the federal government agreed to reinstall it as part of a legal settlement ending a high-profile lawsuit over its removal.

It began with outrage. It ends, for now, with a guarantee. Created in 1978 by artist Gilbert Baker, the rainbow flag has become a global symbol of LGBTQ+ identity and resistance.

The agreement, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, settles a case brought by the Gilbert Baker Foundation, Village Preservation, Equality New York, and others, following the National Park Service's removal of the Pride flag in February. The removal, at the site of the 1969 uprising that ignited the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, sparked swift backlash from advocates, historians, and elected officials who saw it as an erasure of both symbol and story.

Under the settlement, the federal government agreed the Pride flag will remain at Stonewall and "will not be removed" except for practical reasons such as maintenance, according to the court filing. The agreement requires the National Park Service to reinstall the display within seven days, with the American flag at the top of the pole and the rainbow Pride flag and the agency's flag flown beneath it.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Now, watch as Trump demolishes the entire building to erect a golden statue of himself...
just to bypass the settlement and stroke his own ego.