‘Prouder, louder’: NYC Pride pushes back as LGBTQ+ rights are rolled back

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The transgender pride flag won’t be part of this year’s Pride display at the national park near the Stonewall Inn, which typically transforms each June into a sea of rainbow and trans pride flags lining its perimeter.

Although the National Park Service had previously covered the cost of the trans pride flags, the agency shifted gears this year, only agreeing to fund rainbow flags at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, according to Steve Love Menendez, the artist and activist who created the display.

The move comes after the department removed other references to trans people as part of an executive order from President Donald Trump. It is one of many rollbacks of legal and symbolic protections for LGBTQ+ Americans launched under the new administration in the five months since Trump took office.

And it’s just one of the many ways that Pride will look different this year for Menendez and other LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.

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