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.

Stonewall Inn, birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement, festooned with gay-pride banners and flags the weekend after Gay Pride Day
The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, draped in Pride flags — the site President Obama designated as the nation's first LGBTQ national monument in 2016, and where the first Pride flag on federal property was raised in 2022. © Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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