Schumer Pushes to Make Pride Flag ‘Congressionally Authorized Symbol’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Sunday that he would “introduce federal legislation to make the Pride flag a congressionally authorized symbol.”
In an article on X, Schumer critical President Donald Trump for attacking “not just the LGBTQ community” but everyone who cares about “pride and equality” in New York City (NYC). Schumer added that he was “proud to stand alongside” people such as New York State Representative Tony Simone (Democrat) and New York State Senator Erik Bottcher (Democrat) to make his announcement.
“The Stonewall Inn is a sacred place,” Schumer wrote. “Last week, Donald Trump attacked not only the LGBTQ community, but all of us who care about pride and equality in New York when he ordered the removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument.”
The decision to make the Pride flag a congressionally authorized symbol “would enshrine the flag with protections similar to those of the American flag, military flags, POW/MIA flags and others recognized by Congress,” Fox News reported.
The Trump administration previously “removed a pride flag from a national monument outside the Stonewall Inn earlier this month,” although the flag was later “reinstalled atop the flagpole outside the Stonewall Inn,” according to the outlet.
The flag’s removal came after the Interior Ministry issued a memo “ordering the removal of ‘non-agency’ flags in national parks,” according to the outlet.
According to the National Park Service website, “Stonewall was an important milestone for gay and lesbian civil rights that provided the impetus for a movement. »
“In the early morning of June 28, 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn provoked a spontaneous act of resistance that earned a place alongside monuments to American self-determination such as the Seneca Falls Convention for Women’s Rights (1848) and the Selma to Montgomery March for African American Suffrage (1965),” the website explains.
