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.

The "raided premises" sign just inside the door at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. A 1969 police raid here led to the Stonewall riots, one of the m
The "raided premises" sign inside the Stonewall Inn recalling the 1969 police raid that sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement — the same history activists say the flag removal is trying to erase. © Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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