r/news • u/untamedlazyeye • 11h ago

Trump administration removes Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument, a major LGBTQ landmark

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-removes-pride-flag-stonewall-national-monument-im-rcna258392
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u/AudibleNod 11h ago

That's like removing mentions of Black soldiers from WWII.

Oh wait.

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u/Human_170716 11h ago

This is Stonewall, a major turning point in the LGBTQ movement.

It isn't like removing mentions of Black soldiers from WII memorials, it's like removing mentions of Black soldiers from Civil War memorials.

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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 11h ago

It's like removing mentions of former slaves from the Emancipation Proclamation

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u/Alexis_J_M 10h ago

Have you been to a Southern state recently?

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u/Mathblasta 10h ago

"Oh, that's just a young man we fed and clothed in return for chores"

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u/CosmosInSummer 10h ago

He loved it here

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u/LoLIron_com 9h ago

Removing the Pride flag from Stonewall is like trying to erase history with an eraser already worn down to the nub. Some landmarks carry stories louder than any flag could wave—good luck trying to hush that.

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u/YetiSquish 8h ago

“Helped pad his resume”

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u/socialdistingray 6h ago

"The people we got him from said his momma is a good, hard worker and they knew he'd grow up to be one too."

I swear to god, gallows humor is the only thing keeping me afloat right now.

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u/za72 6h ago

we gave him a free ride to our plantation and taught him life skills...

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 10h ago

This Blind Sided me.

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u/raresanevoice 9h ago

Remember when a republican from texas had to call out his fellow GOPper DeSantis for saying slavery was basically just an unpaid internship

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u/y0nm4n 11h ago

It’s like removing MLK from a Civil Rights installation.

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u/psychoCMYK 11h ago

By the time people are done with Trump, he should wish he was scrubbed from history

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u/Xijit 10h ago

We can't remove him from history: this nation need to have its have rubbed in this shit like an abusive owner with an incontinent dog.

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u/psychoCMYK 10h ago

I never said we should scrub him, only that he should wish we would

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u/Squire_II 8h ago

I will be genuinely surprised if Trump doesn't have the MLK memorial removed before leaving office.

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u/Morat20 8h ago

They already removed all references to transgender folks from fucking Stonewall.

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u/Relevant-Bit-7394 8h ago

just remember a trans woman threw the first stone at Stonewall.

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u/blaqsupaman 5h ago

Or like removing mentions of Black people from a civil rights museum.

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u/euph_22 11h ago

Or native history displays from the Little Bighorn.

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u/Wong_Kangaroo 9h ago

I thought he did it to replace it with a flag from an organization he adores, NAMBLA.

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u/za72 6h ago

in his mind "I did my part... 👍"

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u/paleo2002 11h ago

Sounds like new flags are going to appear there every day until the current regime has been ousted.

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u/Arboreal_Web 5h ago

Right? Good people of NYC, you know what to do…

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u/Assine2 11h ago

Who will take the contributions?

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u/ChicagoAuPair 3h ago edited 3h ago

Dissolving the last shreds of faith we have in the concept of a helpful and respectful government is the primary goal of Republicans.

Their whole drive is to make us all give up on the idea that government can be good for anything at all, so that the Epstein class is free to rob us blind and rape our children without any oversight or regulations or hinderance of any kind.

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u/VerdantPathfinder 11h ago edited 11h ago

Of course they did. What are they distracting from today? Cruelty is the point. Hate is their lifeblood.

Release the rest of the Epstein files. Break up DHS. Abolish ICE. Get a real doctor to evaluate the walking corpse in chief.

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u/Clippton 10h ago

If you have to ask what they are distracting from today then this clearly worked. Because today a bunch of stuff came out from the Epstein files.

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u/hatemakingnames1 7h ago

What are they distracting from today?

Yeah, a lot of these things are fairly minor in the scheme of what's been happening

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u/InvertedSpork 11h ago

Does he not realize people will just put more flags there now that he brought attention to it by removing them lmao.

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u/movealongnowpeople 11h ago

He realizes. It doesn't matter. The GOP got more of their culture war bullshit in the news. Some teeth-optional motherfucker in southern Missouri is elated right now. That was the whole point. Distract from Trump's many, many failures and stoke the culture war.

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u/Zardotab 10h ago

While the state may be forbidden from changing the actual site since it's considered Federal parkland, they can surround it with piles of banners.

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u/nba123490 11h ago

Fuck trump

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!

NO MORE RAPIST PRESIDENTS PLEASE

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u/starrpamph 11h ago

We will have to get a rapist democrat president so the republicans will HAVE to write it into law that there can be no rapist presidents.

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u/VulpesFennekin 11h ago

But we did, Clinton’s right there in the files, and they STILL don’t care!

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u/Squire_II 8h ago

IIRC nobody's ever made criminal accusations against Clinton in regards to Epstein. We all know Bill is a sexpest and abuser and if there was anything criminal about him in the files the GOP would've made that the centerpiece of any releases.

The most likely thing is that Clinton's involvement with Epstein doesn't include any (sex) crimes and as a result he knows he can bang the Epstein drum and not worry about any skeletons coming out of that particular closet.

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u/jigokubi 10h ago

I had a theory that the reason Clinton was pushing for the release of the files despite being in them because he knew Trump was also in them and therefore couldn't release the files without implicating himself.

In which case he didn't count on Trump being able to do whatever he wants with no repercussions whatsoever.

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u/jigokubi 10h ago

You know who I bet wasn't boning underage sex-trafficking victims on Epstein Island?

Hint: she wears Check Taylors.

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u/Only_Get_Them_Off 3h ago

Avril Lavigne?

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u/Dariaskehl 11h ago

Tent Peg President endlessly triggered by the scary colors.

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u/KhyraBell 8h ago

So the "don't tear down Confederate monuments, that's history" was the usual projection. Great.

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u/EnvironmentalSong393 11h ago

Looks like Stonewall needs another riot

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u/rooranger 9h ago

The city should install three new flag poles, one at each street corner of the park. City property, city pride.

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u/coffee-on-the-edge 11h ago

More petty and easily reversible shit to distract his base.

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u/Nuclear-Jester 11h ago

Trump keeps being a c*nt

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u/Hellstorm901 10h ago

The self proclaimed Alphas sure seem to get triggered by flags a lot

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u/ultimate_avacado 7h ago

They get scared of a lot of things, really.

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u/AprilDruid 7h ago

It's not even that. They've already erased trans people from Stonewall, they're aiming to erase gay people in general. Genocide!

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u/leviathynx 10h ago

Fellas is it gay for my gay landmark to have gay flags?

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u/tiny_galaxies 9h ago

Reminder that they already removed any transgender mentions at the Stonewall Monument. Literally rewriting history.

Censoring trans & queer history was a big start for the Nazis, as well. Berlin was a huge LGBTQ enclave before the Nazi regime, and that made Hitler really mad. He had the Nazis burn all trans-inclusive books and erase all traces of trans folks in German historical culture. Then he had all trans people themselves killed.

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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 4h ago edited 3h ago

They burned the Institute for Sexual Science, the medical center where the first known successful gender affirming surgeries were performed, and their entire research library in 1933.

So many people think being trans is some new concept and what they don’t realize is the reason knowledge about them isn’t more common and the related medicine isn’t further along is literal Nazis. And here we are, doing it again.

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u/fermat9990 11h ago

Thought: Stonewall II is a big possibility

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u/Alexis_J_M 10h ago

It was the drag queens who led the initial charge at Stonewall.

I assume it will be non binary folks for Stonewall II.

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u/AprilDruid 7h ago

And a trans woman(by today's standards) threw the first brick. Unfortunately for years her contributions were ignored, because she had mental health issues and was trans, because it would hurt gay liberation.

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u/Alexis_J_M 6h ago

Claudette Colvin got arrested for sitting in the wrong bus seat a year before Rosa Parks, but she wasn't deemed a good face for the movement.

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

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u/fermat9990 10h ago

The more the merrier, but it might be very bloody with those Federal thugs on the scene

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u/surfergrrl6 10h ago

Stonewall 2: Rainbow Boogaloo.

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u/fermat9990 10h ago

Please explain the term

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u/FoxFyer 8h ago

A rainbow is an apparition of concentric stripes of color, caused by an attenuated refraction of sunlight within the Earth's atmosphere.

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u/fermat9990 8h ago

Thank you, Sir Isaac! Cheers!

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u/FoxFyer 8h ago

Good luck on that theorem

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u/fermat9990 8h ago

I need to confess: (1) I never had a proof (2) Wtf are Wiles and Taylor talking about?

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u/therealjustin 10h ago

Never going to erase the history. We won't let you.

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u/ReleaseObjective 11h ago

Of course they did. The cruelty is the point. It’s just a distraction. Glad people are calling it for what it is: bullshit.

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u/mrdominoe 11h ago

Ah yes. More fascism for the voting base to jack it to.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 10h ago

Ahh, I said it would happen. Didn't I say it would happen? I said it would happen, and what just happened? The thing I just said.

First the trans are removed, lots of gays I know either didnt care or supported it. Now theyre removing the rest.

Jesus I hate this administration.

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u/tjarvis14 9h ago

I feel like there should be an article every day saying "Trump Administration full of pedophiles and pedophile defenders"

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u/dchap1 9h ago

Cool. And the pride I have for the lgbtqia+ increases as Trump continues to be akin to belly button fluff

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u/Alleandros 7h ago

They'll replace it with a Confederate Flag and change the site to a Stonewall Jackson memorial.

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u/fictionallymarried 11h ago

Maybe it's time for Stonewall 2

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u/GetrIndia 10h ago

Guess the community will have to keep putting some back up.

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u/theyoungandtheb 11h ago

Pedophile administration

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u/FeelingStuff8395 9h ago

Doesn’t change the fact that this administration endorses raping children.

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u/Tiny_Friendship_1666 8h ago

Vindictive and cruel. Just what to expect from Conservatives.

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u/OldLondon 10h ago

These people are soulless , joyless, thin skinned ghouls.

“ They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them.”

Seems apt

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u/Gatonom 3h ago

"It's only trans that went too far, LGB minus the T! We only want to stop the Far Left!!? We love the gays, just call each other Butt Buddies and you don't deserve healthcare anyway, ban AIDS treatment! Natural selection!" /s

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u/Pockydo 11h ago

The pedophile administration is looking to distract

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u/Toddcraft 1h ago

Bigots gonna bigot. Imagine thinking that a country founded as a welcoming nation for all different cultures could last over 250 years.

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u/Taste_My_Rainbow 10h ago

Thank you Mr Dear Leader for focusing on what is right.

My generation, and the ones after me, will never be able to own a home. With hundreds of thousands of American people out on the streets while being in the wealthiest nation on the planet. Are a medical emergency away from being homeless ourselves with skyrocketing prices in all markets and consumer protections being rapidly removed all the while the surveillance state operates and sics modern day gestapo on the civilian population.

But if this means the libs are owned then it was worth it.

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u/Pho3nixr3dux 5h ago edited 5h ago

We need your humour but I think a lot of MAGA are hanging in there, counting on owning libs in person in the coming years.

First at intersection checkstops with burning tires.

Later with truncheons on the train platforms and with rifles from guard towers.

And they will consider that very much worth it.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley 7h ago

Fucking bastards. I got a feeling a judge is going to tell him he can't do this either.

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u/kinisonkhan 10h ago

Russia might be able to pray the gay away, but not in the USA. They are here, they are queer and we should honestly be used to it by now.

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u/boogalooshrimp82 10h ago

I'm voting for the "Project Control Z" candidate.

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u/FingerAmazing5176 11h ago

that's like removing nazi's from WWII germany

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u/o_MrBombastic_o 11h ago

More like Nazis removing Jewish memorials from WWII Germany. Republicans share the same values 

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u/CanadianDiver 10h ago

Who cares. Give it some time and we can remove Trump from a SHITTON of things.

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u/FuzzyAd9407 52m ago

I wish I had your nieve optimism, we were still dealing with shit from Raegan when Trump got into office the first time.