Author: newyork-news

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…

LGBTQIA+ Caucus Co-Chair Chi Ossé delivers remarks throughout a rally on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument flagpole on Feb. 12. Matt Tracy Metropolis and state lawmakers packed into Christopher Park on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument on the morning of Feb. 12 for a “Hands Off Our Flag” rally in opposition to the Trump administration’s resolution to take away the Rainbow Flag there earlier within the week. Bronx Councilmember Justin Sanchez, who not too long ago took workplace and serves alongside Ossé as co-chair of the LGBTQIA+ Caucus, kicked off the rally by declaring that the flag’s removing “is just not right.”…