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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-19T17:03:23.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Human rights campaign",
    "Kelley robinson",
    "Chuck schumer",
    "Congress",
    "Donald trump",
    "National parks",
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    "_announced plans_",
    "_prohibited the flag’s display_",
    "_subsequent removal_",
    "_a new Pride flag_",
    "_**Hundreds fill the streets near Stonewall as NYC community members reraised Pride flag Trump ordered removed**_",
    "_passed a resolution_",
    "_two lawsuits_",
    "_**For New Yorkers, Stonewall’s new Pride flag is only step one**_",
    "_Christopher Street Project_",
    "___Morrison Media Group___"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has drafted a bill to authorize the display of Pride flags at national park sites, including _Stonewall National Monument_.\n\nSchumer _announced plans_ to codify protections for the Rainbow Pride Flag during a press event at the monument on Sunday. Schumer is drafting the legislation alongside Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Dan Goldman, all of them Democrats from New York.\n\nThe move comes after President Donald Trump _prohibited the flag’s display_ on certain federal properties, and its _subsequent removal_ from Stonewall — a site where riots against police raids in 1969 helped forge the gay rights movement. Local leaders raised _a new Pride flag_ at the monument last week in spite of Trump’s federal directive.\n\nSchumer’s bill has not yet been introduced into Congress. But the bill would let national park officials display the Pride flag, while also condemning the flag’s removal from Stonewall and urging its restoration, a spokesperson for Schumer told __The Advocate__ over email.\n\n“The lesson is simple. Rights that are not secured in law can be threatened, and symbols that are not protected can be stripped away,” Schumer said Sunday. The Pride flag “is not a decoration. It's a living symbol of history, of resilience, and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality.”\n\n**Related:**_**Hundreds fill the streets near Stonewall as NYC community members reraised Pride flag Trump ordered removed**_\n\nGoldman, who attended the raising of a replacement Pride flag at Stonewall last week, described its removal as an effort to “spew hate.”\n\n“The Trump administration tried to erase our vibrant LGBTQ+ history by literally tearing down our flag,” Goldman shared on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. “But rest assured we won’t let them.”\n\nThe bill comes amid a string of policy and legal efforts to protect the Pride flag’s display at Stonewall and other sites of LGBTQ+ history.\n\nLast week, the New York City Council _passed a resolution_ opposing the Pride flag’s removal from Stonewall, and members of the chamber were present to help raise a new flag. Meanwhile, _two lawsuits_ filed in federal court this week seek to prevent the federal government from removing the flag again.\n\nIn light of the flag's removal, many LGBTQ+ rights groups and New York City activists say they have found renewed focus for protests, mutual aid, grassroots organizing and voting campaigns.\n\n**Related:**_**For New Yorkers, Stonewall’s new Pride flag is only step one**_\n\nSeveral expressed support for Schumer’s bill, plus hope that it could protect LGBTQ history sites from further federal intervention.\n\n“The Pride flag represents generations of Americans who fought to be seen, heard, and protected under our nation’s promise of liberty,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, in remarks shared with __The Advocate__ through a media representative. “This is not about politics or identities. It’s about ensuring our history fully reflects who we are as a country.”\n\n“We’re still here. We’re still queer. And we’re not going anywhere,” said Jay Kuo, chair-elect of the Human Rights Campaign, during Sunday’s gathering. “So fly your Pride flags higher than ever.”\n\nTyler Hack, executive director of the _Christopher Street Project_ — a political action committee centered around trans rights — said the Trump administration’s removal of the Pride flag was “destructive,” but also emblematic of the wider struggle to protect LGBTQ rights, especially trans rights.\n\n“This fight is bigger than a flag. This fight is about youth not being able to get their gender-affirming care. It feels like every day we hear of a new clinic that stops providing life-saving health care to trans youth,” Hack told __The Advocate__. “We can't lose sight that the core of our fight right now is about liberating trans people from all out attacks on our health care and on our ways of life.”\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": "Chuck Schumer drafts bill to protect Pride flags at national park sites like Stonewall memorial"
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