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.

Jay W. Walker, president of Gays Against Guns, attends the March 1, 2026 rally in Manhattan opposing the discontinuation of gender-affirming care for minors at NYU Langone and Mount Sinai.
Jay W. Walker, co-founder of the Reclaim Pride Coalition and longtime HIV survivor, who physically re-attached a Pride flag to the original NPS flagpole on February 12 with fellow activist Josh Tjaden. "That flagpole was put up there for the sole purpose of displaying the rainbow flag," he told The Advocate. © Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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