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Schumer Files Bill to Authorize Pride Flag on Federal Property After Stonewall Dispute

The measure seeks to overcome Interior Department restrictions by recognizing the Pride flag in federal law.

A person secures the flags during a ceremony where New York City officials re-raise the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on February 12, 2026, after its removal by the National Park Service earlier this week. (Photo by TIMOTHY A.CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: The Pride flag is raised again at Stonewall National Monument after local politicians and activists put up a LGBTQ+ Pride flag after the Trump administration had the National Park Service remove it earlier in the week, February 12, 2026, in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. Hundreds gathered at the park in protest and celebration as the flag was reinstalled at the site, which is considered the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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New York City officials re-raise the Pride flag, next to the US flag, at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on Feb. 12, 2026, after its removal by the National Park Service earlier this week.

Overview

  • Sen. Chuck Schumer filed legislation to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized symbol, enabling its display on federal property such as national parks.
  • Rep. Dan Goldman is advancing a companion measure in the House to confer the same federal recognition.
  • The move follows the Pride flag’s removal from the Stonewall National Monument under a Jan. 21 Interior memo limiting NPS-managed flagpoles to the U.S., Interior, and POW/MIA flags.
  • Activists and local officials re-raised the flag at Stonewall on Feb. 12, and it remains flying as Interior criticized the event as a “political stunt.”
  • If enacted, the designation would allow sites like Stonewall to lawfully fly the Pride flag where rules require congressional authorization, but the bill faces long odds in a Republican-controlled Congress and would still need the president’s signature.