The federal government agreed on Monday that the rainbow Pride flag could fly at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, reversing its decision to remove it and dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives. The removal of the Pride flag in February from the monument, which is in Greenwich Village, drew fierce backlash from L.G.B.T.Q. people across the country and state and local elected officials in New York, who saw it as an attack on the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement.

The agreement, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, settled a lawsuit by a group of nonprofits. They argued that the government had illegally targeted L.G.B.T.Q. people and violated a policy that allows the National Park Service to fly “non-agency” flags at federal sites if the flags provide historical context. Under the terms of the settlement, the government agreed to permanently return the flag to the federal site’s official flagpole within seven days, alongside an American flag and the flag of the National Park Service.

As was covered here extensively, the ban drew thousands of protesters to the Stonewall Monument and spawned celebration by hate groups and MAGA figures, with one prominent evangelist calling the flag’s presence “treasonous.” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced the ban as an “outrage” and Sen. Chuck Schumer introduced a bill to codify allowing Pride flags at the Stonewall Monument.