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 Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani photographed in Assembly District 36, photographed by Kara McCurdy
Zohran Mamdani, who as mayor condemned the flag's removal immediately: "New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history." © Karamccurdy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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