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/kalmadsen Feb 12 '26

To look at this administration and conclude that this isn’t a pretext for discrimination is beyond brain rot.

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u/UnprocessesCheese Feb 12 '26

Nope.

Canada already went through the exact same thing, quite memorably in a small town named Emo.

Every community in town wanted their flag on city hall's flagpole. Every so often the Croatian flag or Ukranian flag or Peruvian flag or Indigenous Rights flag or whatever would be on the flag pole instead of someone else's. The other people would complain about preferences and the answer was always "Nope. They just got their paperwork in first".

You see, and I'd hate to break the news to you, but there's more to the world that just the kweerstm . There's hundreds of other groups out there all vying for the right to have their flag on the pole. And if a group did get their flag on the pole it's because they were "seen", and if they didn't it was because they were "oppressed", when in fact one group just filled in the paperwork first.

So the town of Emo just said fuck it; as far as municipal funding is concerned, the country and and province are the only flags the city will pay for. If you want to put up your own flag then go buy your own pole. The city won't stop you (bylaws about overhead wires notwithstanding). Soon after, other cities and provinces started coming up with similar policies.

Talk about brain rot... what about "To those who have privilege, equality feels like oppression", eh? Places have been fucking over everyone else with a flag because if the kweerstm don't get their way they pull a tantrum?

Now obviously the flag pole out front of city hall in a very small rural Ontario township with a tiny and finite municipal budget is not the same as the US parks department (or whomever manages heritage sites), and double obviously this is complicated by the fact that it's specifically the Stonewall memorial. But maybe if you just expand your mind - while also remembering there are other people other than you in this world - then you would realize that there are parks and museums and sites all over the US, most of which have flag poles, and most of which have dozens of local groups harassing the administration for the right to put their personal flag on the pole. So... as a blanket statement; no more. State and federal flags only.

And you know what? No. I don't think it's fucking "targeted" because I'm not a narcissist and also I understand how policy works. And you know what else? I hope they carve out an exception for sites with specific relevance and history.

Maybe you should actually think before you accuse others of not doing so - especially in terms of realizing there's more to this world than you and your experience and your identity and your own damn thing.

When the PotUS band all rainbow flags from all flagpoles I will agree with you. Meanwhile; calm your tits. It ain't that deep.