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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T18:45:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nThe New York City Council has advanced a resolution urging Congress to protect LGBTQ history at Stonewall National Monument after the Trump administration ordered Pride flags to be _removed from the site_.\n\n_Resolution 1255_ passed the council’s cultural affairs committee 6-0 on Wednesday morning, and now awaits consideration from the full chamber. Lead sponsor Chi Ossé told __The Advocate__ that the resolution marks a step toward combating President Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ agenda.\n\n“These attacks that we’re seeing on LGBTQ history [are] ... a distraction from the actual enemies we have at hand, which are Donald Trump [and] the fascist right-wing government,” said Councilmember Ossé, a Democrat who represents the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford–Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.\n\nThe Trump administration issued a _federal directive_ last month that prohibited national parks from flying banners other than the U.S. flag, with few exceptions. Similar orders have restricted what flags can be flown at U.S. _embassies_ and _military outposts_.\n\nThe orders seem to be a crackdown on symbols like the Pride flag and _Black Lives Matter_ slogan from appearing at government buildings, which Trump has _previously criticized_. But _hundreds of protesters_ who have convened outside Stonewall argue the Pride flag is integral to commemorating LGBTQ history at the site.\n\n“They’re trying to erase anything that accurately conveys the history of struggle of marginalized communities in this country,” Jay W. Walker, a New York City activist, told __The Advocate__ _at a protest Tuesday_.\n\nPatrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back during a June 1969 police raid and helped set in motion a national movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Stonewall is widely regarded as one of the most important sites of LGBTQ history in the United States, and was designated a _national monument_ by President Barack Obama in 2016.\n\nThe resolution “goes beyond just a flag,” said Councilmember Justin Sanchez, a co-sponsor, during Wednesday’s committee meeting. “What removing a flag or desecrating any of our park space does is remove the places and the spaces where we get to see and be ourselves.”\n\nStonewall’s status as federal property means the federal government, and Trump, have jurisdiction over the site. But local officials, including Ossé, members of city council and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have promised to push back against the Pride flag removal.\n\n“I am outraged by the removal of the Rainbow Pride Flag from Stonewall National Monument,” Mamdani posted on the _social media platform X_ Tuesday. “New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history.”\n\n __This article was written as part of the Future of Queer Media fellowship program at The Advocate, which is underwritten by a generous gift from__ ___Morrison Media Group___ __. The program helps support the next generation of LGBTQ+ journalists.__",
  "title": "New York City Council advances resolution opposing Stonewall Pride flag removal"
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