Activists re-installed the Pleasure flag on the Stonewall Monument.
Picture by Dean Moses
Three days after the Trump administration eliminated a Rainbow Flag from the Stonewall Nationwide Monument, defiant activists hoisted the Rainbow Flag as soon as once more in entrance of a jam-packed crowd of fed-up LGBTQ group members who flooded the realm surrounding Christopher Park.
The flag re-raising ceremony, whereas in the end profitable, took a dramatic flip from its authentic plan. For days, elected officers — together with Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Manhattan State Senator Erik Bottcher — vowed to lift the flag throughout a 4 p.m. occasion on Feb. 12. These elected officers certainly introduced a Rainbow Flag connected to a skinny flagpole and positioned it subsequent to the flagpole the place the unique Rainbow Flag was positioned, however the brand new flag didn’t get connected to the precise flagpole on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument — and it was solely flying at about half-staff.
The elected officers left the flag in place and walked away, leaving the viewers groaning in disappointment and prompting a number of activists to stroll up and really set up a Rainbow Flag onto the flagpole — with scissors and all. Minutes later, the Rainbow Flag went up and sat simply inches above the American Flag on the identical flagpole after the activists completed elevating the brand new flag.
The Pleasure flag makes its approach via the group.Picture by Dean Moses 
The Pleasure flag makes its approach via the group.Picture by Dean Moses 
The Pleasure flag makes its approach via the group.Picture by Dean Moses
Picture by Dean Moses 
The Pleasure flag will get re-installed.Picture by Dean Moses 
The Pleasure flag will get re-installed.Picture by Dean Moses
