DOI responds to NYC Stonewall pride flag battle blasting Mamdani

In New York Metropolis, a battle is creating between elected Democratic officers and the Trump administration, with a Satisfaction flag being flown at a authorities monument exterior the historic Stonewall Inn.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration eliminated a Satisfaction flag from the nationwide monument exterior the Stonewall Inn, the location of a conflict between police and patrons of a homosexual bar seen by many as the beginning of the homosexual rights motion within the Sixties, in a transfer it stated complies with decades-old federal code.

The federal government says solely the American flag, the Division of the Inside flag or POW flags can fly on nationwide monuments reasonably than political flags, and that Satisfaction flags proceed to be displayed across the monument on the close by Stonewall Inn itself.

The transfer sparked outrage amongst activists and Democratic leaders in New York Metropolis, together with town’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who posted on X that he was “outraged” and that “our metropolis has an obligation not solely to honor this legacy, however to dwell as much as it.”

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An issue erupts in New York Metropolis after the Trump administration eliminated the Satisfaction flag from a nationwide monument. (Spencer Platt/Getty; Fox Information Digital/Deirdre Heavey)

On Thursday, lots of of protesters watched as native officers raised the Satisfaction flag once more on the nationwide monument, Fox 5 New York. reportedprompting a scathing response from the Inside Ministry, which manages the nation’s nationwide parks.

“Moderately than assembly the fundamental wants of their constituents, metropolis leaders appear extra targeted on theater than options,” a spokesperson for the Division of the Inside advised Fox Information Digital. “Residents surprise why their elected officers prioritize headlines over heating. Each day these points go unresolved is one other day households are pressured to dwell with the results of mismanagement and neglect.”

“A whole bunch of houses in New York Metropolis have been left with out energy throughout this 12 months’s extreme chilly climate, individuals are being discovered lifeless within the streets and trash has piled up so excessive that it towers over town’s residents. That is Mayor Mamdani and metropolis officers in New York Metropolis. Whereas in the present day’s political stunt is a distraction from their latest lethal failures, it could be a greater use of their time to clear the pile of trash from town streets, guaranteeing that there aren’t any extra preventable deaths fall, and work to maintain the movement of individuals from New York for years to come back.”

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Crowds watch exterior Stonewall Nationwide Monument as individuals take part within the 2025 NYC Satisfaction March on June 29, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Adam Grey/Getty Pictures)

Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani’s workplace for remark.

The Division of the Inside claims that latest changes to the flag hanging on the monument are a part of “long-standing federal flag coverage” and may guarantee “consistency with federal tips.”

“Stonewall Nationwide Monument stays dedicated to preserving and decoding the historical past and significance of this web site via exhibitions, applications and academic initiatives.”

A supply conversant in the scenario tells Fox Information Digital that there was beforehand no American flag on the monument and that park officers needed to buy one to adjust to the US Code.

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President Donald Trump, together with Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum, solutions a query from reporters after signing govt orders within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, DC, on Could 23, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

The supply defined that this problem just isn’t particularly targeted on the Stonewall Monument, however reasonably is a part of broader considerations concerning the politicization of nationwide monuments carried out by so-called “Resistance Rangers,” operatives who overtly work in opposition to the Trump administration from inside.

A report of Outdoors Journal final fall highlighted an upside-down American flag displayed on Yosemite Nationwide Park’s well-known El Capitan cliff and related incidents in different nationwide parks as a part of a marketing campaign by laid-off Nationwide Park Service staff, activists and the group of nameless staff throughout the Nationwide Park Service who referred to as themselves the “Resistance Rangers.”

President Barack Obama established Stonewall Nationwide Monument on June 24, 2016, and designated the world across the Stonewall Inn in New York Metropolis as a protected historic web site. It was the primary time a U.S. nationwide monument was devoted to LGBTQ historical past.