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Schumer hustles bill to put ‘Pride’ flag on same status level as U.S., military, POW/MIA flags

February 17, 2026 | | Print Article

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) can’t be troubled to negotiate in good faith to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but when it comes to protecting the sanctimony of the LGBTQ+ “Pride” flag, it’s his top priority.

The New York City Democrat is now hustling legislation that would give the special demographic’s precious rainbow banner the same status as the U.S. flag, military, and POW/MIA flags, which are recognized by Congress.

Schumer’s bill comes amid the uproar from leftists after the “Pride” flag was taken down at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, hallowed ground for the homosexual rights movement, with gays and transgenders being an integral component of the Democrat coalition.

“The Stonewall Inn is sacred ground,” declared Schumer in a Sunday post to X. “Last week, Donald Trump attacked not just the LGBTQ community, but all of us who care about pride and equality in NYC when he ordered the removal of the pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument.”

The site of the Stonewall Inn, where homosexuals clashed with police in violent riots back in 1969, has long been a symbol of gay rights and was officially designated as a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2016. It is holy ground, a shrine to sodomy which Democrats and leftists treat with the same degree of religious reverence as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Wailing Wall, and the Great Mosque of Mecca.

X users offered up their feedback to the minority leader, much of it negative.

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“The Trump administration continued its assault on the LGBTQ community earlier this week with the removal of the historic pride flag from the Stonewall Monument in New York, citing a directive that it is not a congressionally authorized flag. Today, Leader Schumer moved to right that wrong by introducing legislation that would give the pride flag the designation of a congressional authorized flag, as well as express a sense of the Senate that the pride flag should fly at the Stonewall Monument,” the Democrats said in a statement.

“New Yorkers are right to be outraged, but if there’s one thing I know about this latest attempt to rewrite history, stoke division and discrimination, and erase our community pride, it’s this: that flag will return. New Yorkers will see to it,” Schumer (D-NY) vowed last Tuesday after the flag’s removal in compliance with a National Park Service (NPS) rule that stated only “authorized” flags were to be flown.

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In a show of defiance, congressional Democrats from New York City joined local activists for the re-hoisting of the rainbow banner last week.

“Trump’s hateful crusade must end. The very core of American identity is liberty and justice for all – and that is what this legislation would protect: each national park’s ability to make their own decision about what flag can be flown. Attempts to hurt New York and the LGBTQ community simply won’t fly, but the Stonewall Pride flag always will,” Schumer said of his bill.

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