Photos by Stacie Joy
We were in the Village yesterday and stopped by the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park.
As widely reported on Thursday, local elected officials and activists raised a rainbow flag at the site, days after the Trump Administration removed one from the National Park Service-run site.
The park service has said it was complying with federal guidance on flags.
Said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal: "If you can't fly a Pride flag steps from the Stonewall monument, at the National monument for LGBTQ liberation, where can you fly it?"
For their part, a spokesperson for the Interior Department dismissed the flag raising as a "political stunt" and described the city's Democratic leadership as "utterly incompetent and misaligned," per the Associated Press.
The Stonewall Inn is across from the park monument at 53 Christopher St.
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