Trump Administration Agrees To Keep Flying Rainbow Pride Flag At New York’s Stonewall Monument

NEW YORK — The Trump management agreed Monday to support flying a rainbow Pride emblem astatine nan Stonewall National Monument, reversing people aft removing nan banner successful February.

The authorities revealed nan determination arsenic it seeks to settee a suit revenge by LGBTQ+ and historical preservation groups who had sought to artifact nan removal. A judge must still o.k. nan agreement.

According to tribunal papers, nan Interior Department and National Park Service “have confirmed their volition to support a Pride emblem astatine Stonewall.” It won’t beryllium removed, isolated from for “maintenance aliases different applicable purposes.”

Under nan agreement, wrong a week, nan Park Service will bent 3 flags connected nan Stonewall monument emblem rod — each measuring 3 feet by 5 feet. The Pride emblem will alert betwixt nan U.S. emblem and Park Service flag.

The Pride emblem had go a flashpoint for arguments complete President Donald Trump ’s attack to nan Stonewall tract — nan first nationalist monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history — and various different humanities properties.