Stonewall's Flag Comes Down: Top Photos

A borough president climbs a ladder, an activist grabs the federal flagpole, and a dead man's foundation sues the Interior Department.

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal holds a conversation with a member of his district on the corner of West 79th Street and Columbus Avenue in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the first openly LGBTQ man to hold the office, who climbed a ladder five days after the flag disappeared and raised a new Pride flag on a city pole. "If you can't fly a Pride flag steps from Stonewall monument, where can you fly it?" he told CNN. © Ryan Gold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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