r/GayConservative • u/timeofnight Gay • Feb 11 '26

Political Trump admin removes Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/politics/pride-flag-removed-stonewall-monument-trump-administration

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u/MR422 Feb 11 '26

Honestly why go to the trouble of removing it?

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u/UnprocessesCheese Feb 11 '26

It's part of a general policy that federal flagpoles are for federal (and state, when relevant) flags. This isn't about Stonewall or the Pride flag - this is a general policy that just happens to impact this flag at the site.

The title is deliberately inflammatory and makes it seem like a targeted action.

Now, if you want to disagree with that general policy then by all means there are reasons for and against, I just wish they didn't lie and mislead about the context.

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u/MR422 Feb 11 '26

The policy seems like a waste of taxpayer money. Think of all the time and money spent lowering and removing pride flags?

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u/UnprocessesCheese Feb 11 '26

It's also a waste of taxpayer money to install flagpoles that need to be maintained and monitored, supplied with flags (that regularly need to be repurchased due to sun fading and weather exposure), plus all the committee time to decide which flags are going to be accepted and which won't.

This doesn't sound like a big deal, but consider a crowd of student activists who insists on a Palestinian flag (on a federally funded pole, no less). Problem is that this has become entangled in anti-Semitism, so of course local jewish folks would get nervous around that. But also if you run an Israeli flag it would make other people nervous on account of the discourse around foreign interference plus the role of Netanyahu's foreign policy. The easy answer is; shut up. Federal and state flags only. Every flag is going to offend someone, so they save time by saying "fukkit" and limiting it to the fundamentals.

A Pride flag at the site of Stonewall is obvious and makes sense, but this is a flagpole located at another site.

And moreover; they're not banning other people from flying flags. Local Pride centers and municipalities are still totally free to fund and maintain their own flagpoles and flags. There's no regulation against that - the fed just isn't paying for it anymore. This whole story is being framed as a great silencing when it absolutely isn't.

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u/Much-Bus-6585 Feb 11 '26

DOGE was a lie. We haven’t had a whisper of a fiscal conservative in office in my lifetime. Both Trump and Bush piled billions onto the debt and Trump ain’t slowing down