Community activist Jay Walker speaks at a protest against the removal of the rainbow flag from the Stonewall site in New York on February 10, 2026

Community activist Jay Walker speaks at a protest against the removal of the rainbow flag from the Stonewall site in New York on February 10, 2026

 Kena Betancur

The Trump administration has given the green light for the LGBTQ rainbow flag to once again fly above New York's Stonewall, a US national monument to the struggle for gay equality, a rights group that sued for its return said Monday.

The administration had taken down the flag in February from the listed site in Manhattan, under a National Park Service edict prohibiting the display of flags other than the Stars and Stripes, with some limited exceptions. 

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