National Park Service and Historical Memory

A federal court-approved settlement requires the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service to rehang and permanently maintain a Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan. Under the joint filing by government and plaintiff lawyers, the National Park Service will reinstall three 3-by-5-foot flags on the site's flagpole within seven days — the U.S. flag on top, the Pride flag in the middle and the Park Service flag below — and has "confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall" except for maintenance or other practical purposes. A judge has approved the deal, formally ending the lawsuit that followed the flag's February removal under Interior guidance that had limited flags on NPS flagpoles.