Rainbow flag raised at Stonewall monument in New York in defiance of Trump

People demonstrate outside the Stonewall Inn after New York politicians and activists raised a rainbow flag (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

New York politicians have defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBT+ landmark.

“We did it,” said Manhattan Borough president Brad Hoylman-Sigal after helping raise the flag near an existing American flag in a tiny Greenwich Village park jammed with more than a hundred people.