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 plaque at the Stonewall Inn.
The plaque at the Stonewall Inn marking the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement — a history the NPS had already begun scrubbing from the monument's web page in February 2025, removing references to transgender and queer people. © Grace.Mahony, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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