The New York Times reports:

A large Pride flag has been removed from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, weeks after the Department of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the Manhattan borough president, said that the directive from the Trump administration, issued on Jan. 21, led to the removal of the flag from the Greenwich Village monument.

Mr. Hoylman-Sigal criticized the decision in an interview. “The mean-spiritedness of the Trump administration seems to know no bounds,” said Mr. Hoylman-Sigal, who is gay. “But we as a community are not going to take it standing by idly as our history, and by extension our human rights, are attempted to be erased.”

Mr. Hoylman-Sigal said he and other local representatives are planing to raise the flag at the monument again on Thursday. “We may be prevented from doing so,” he said. “But if we don’t seize this moment, and this outrage, I think we’ll let down generations of queer activists.”

Read the full article. Longtime JMG readers will recall Hoylman-Sigal’s tireless work for marriage equality in the New York Senate.