Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Congressmember Dan Goldman — both from New York — formally introduced their legislation that would make the Rainbow Flag a Congressionally-authorized flag, including at the Stonewall National Monument.
The bill’s introduction comes two weeks after the Trump administration removed the Rainbow Flag from the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, prompting widespread anger and demands for the flag’s restoration. While activists and elected officials re-raised a Rainbow Flag on that flagpole, Schumer announced at a Feb. 15 press conference that he would propose a bill to protect the Rainbow Flag. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is co-sponsoring the bill in the upper house.
